Murderer's Isle of Wight escape plot foiled

Prisoner Brian Lawrence's plan, using a helicopter and the music festival as cover, was foiled when guards found covert messagesIt sounds like something from a cheap crime novel: a jealous murderer is sprung from prison by a helicopter under the cover of a music festival, after planning the escape using hidden codes written in lemon juice and on sudoku puzzles.But Brian Lawrence, 67, serving life for murdering a friend of his ex-lover and hiring a hit man to kill two more of her acquaintances, c...

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