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Stephen Mee was staring down the barrel of a hefty prison sentence

He'd been caught by undercover police smuggling £1m worth of cannabis and cocaine from Colombia into the UK and was facing a lengthy spell behind bars . But while on remand at HMP Risley in Lancashire the then 34-year-old began to hatch a daring plan.

He knew that the journey from prison to his sentencing at Manchester Crown Court presented his best - and last - opportunity to escape. So, using his extensive underworld contacts, he began putting together the scheme that would result in one of the most audacious prison busts in recent memory.

"At the time Strangeways was upside down because of the the riots," Mee told the Terry Stone Connection podcast as he described an escape which could be 'in a movi

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