Brixton Prison IRA escape 1991 be one of the masterminds behind the 1983 escape. (Marley was shot dead by loyalists in 1987.) On 10 June 1981, eight IRA members on remand, including Angelo Fusco, Paul Magee and Joe Doherty, escaped from Crumlin Road Jail. The prisoners took prison officers hostage using three handguns that had been smuggled into the prison, took their uniforms and shot their way out of the prison. On the 25 September 1983 38 Provisional IRA prisoners escaped from the HM Maze prison after taking control of their prison block and driving to freedom in a prison van. It was the biggest
Agodi prison break with force, beating up the officer with an attempt to release other prisoners from their cells. Police arrived at the scene to curtail the incipient prison break and this resulted in a clash between the inmates and the police. This resulted in the death of eight prisoners and injury of eighteen others. The prison break was unsuccessful as no prisoner was able to escaped from the prison. Mauren Omeli, the Oyo state prison controller general who confirm the attack claimed that the aggrieved prisoners attempted to escape over the fear of inadequate medical care. Agodi prison break The Agodi prison