Real Prison Breaks

Australian woman, Lucy Dudko is so besotted with her jailbird boyfriend she hijacks a helicopter, plucks him from the prison pen and flies him to freedom.

A Tennesse prison nurse married with three children falls in love with a felon. In the act of springing him from jail she shoots and kills a guard.

Facing the electric chair, six desperate felons on Virginia's death row overpower their guards and break out.

The Alacatraz escape they didn't want you know about and a modern day Count of Monte Christo breaks out of Monaco's 17th century prison.

Escape by a rope made of dental floss and the last man hanged in Australia: the break out that sealed his fate

In the US the Texas seven overpower unsuspecting maintenance workers, steal their uniforms and ID and drive out of the prison.

On the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of Britain, maximum security Parkhurst Prison is considered escape proof.

Vicious gunman John Kendall and murderer Sydney Draper become the first British criminals to use a helicopter to escape maximum security when they fly out of Gartree prison.

Former criminal John McVicar is a well known British journalist and the subject of a hit movie, but once he was public enemy number one after breaking out of prison in the north of England.