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Though aided by secure buildings and the latest technology, prison authorities around the world still find themselves vulnerable to schemes devised by ingenious prisoners. Australian officials were forced to launch a manhunt last year for Robert Cole, a maximum-security prisoner who by dint of abstinence and laxatives slimmed down from 70kg (about 11st) to 54kg (8st 8lb) and then squeezed through a crack he had chiselled through a wall using a butter knife.

Last year Bosnian robber Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, constructed a parcel and mailed himself out of Karlau jail in Austria. He has not been seen since.