> Escape of JI Mas Selamat, pictorial trail

Wanted. Call 999 Immediately if you see him!

Mas Selamat was taken out of his cell for his family visit scheduled for 4pm to 430pm at the Family Visitation Block. Two Gurkha Guards escorted him to a locker room to change into civilian clothes.

After changing into a light yellow baju kurong and greenish grey pants, he was escorted by the two guards and a woman Special Duty Operative (SDO) – a junior Internal Security Department (ISD) officer – to the Family Visitation Block. He asked to use the toilet next to the family visit room to shave and comb his hair. One guard stood outside the toilet while the other followed him inside.

Mas Selamat used the urinal cubical and closed the door. He flipped his pants over the ledge above the door. He left the tap running. After a few minutes, the guard felt that Mas Selamat was taking too long. He alerted the other guard standing outside the toilet, who then reported to the SDO outside the toilet.

The SDO asked a male Assistant Case Officer to check the toilet. When he kicked open the door of the urinal cubicle, Mas Selamat was not inside. The ventilation window pane located above this urinal cubicle had been swung open. An immediate alert was raised that Mas Selamat had escaped.

The COI found that Mas Selamat had about 11minutes between 3.54pm and 4.05pm to make his escape. The Committee of Inquiry believes that while in the cubicle, Mas Selamat  climbed onto the ledge located just below the ventilation window, pushed open the window and squeezed himself through it.

To help his descent, he probably held on to a water pipe running vertically down the external wall of the toilet. The COI received forensic evidence from CID that smudges were found on the water pipe, although there were no conclusive fingerprints. A packet of seven rolls of toilet paper was found on the ground, which he could have used to break his fall.

There is no conclusive evidence of the exact route Mas Selamat took to escape. The COI’s view is that he was likely to have used a route 20m to the right of the ventilation window, where the inner and outer perimeter fences converged with the enclosed staircase and walkway.

Mas Selamat would have scaled the fence, climbed onto the roof of the enclosed staircase and walkway, and jumped over the converged perimeter fences.

In a re-enactment requested by the COI, a Gurkha guard took 49 seconds to climb out of the ventilation window in the urinal cubicle, scale the fence, climb onto the roof of the enclosed staircase and walkway, and jump over the converged perimeter fences.

[via ST]

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