Richard Pape who wrote ‘Boldness Be My Friend’ escaped via repatriation. I read this years ago so it’s a little vague now, but…
After many escape attempts were foiled he hatched an amazing plan that worked. Another prisoner developed a bad disease, I can’t recall what but I think terminal. It was detected in urine. the ill prisoner was to be repatriated, and the Red Cross were checking the other prisoners in case they too had contracted it.
Pape worked in the kitchen of the prison so he nicked two corks and a piece of rubber hosepipe, and fashioned a lifelike fake willy. He got the sick man to pee into it, and when time came for a Red Cross medical instead of giving his own urine sample he flopped out his rubber hose container with the ill urine contained inside. He discreetly pulled a pin out that was blocking a small hole, and in full view of the guards and doctors, “peed” into the cup.
Of course the results were positive, so they sent him back to the UK!!
One of the most ingenius escapes ever I reckon. No risk at all involved in terms of jumping fences and digging tunnels.
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