How Taylor Escaped U.S. Prison

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Though it was a question not relevant to the ongoing trial, Mr. Taylor told the jam-packed courtroom that one prison guard from the supervisory division told him that night that he would be leaving.

“I was escorted by the same guard. With my prison cell unlocked by a US prison guard late one night in November 1985, I walked out of the maximum security area of the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts,” Taylor told the Special Court for Sierra Leone yesterday.

Taylor said he was escorted to the minimum security area and a sheet was tied to a window which they used to climb down but added that the distance to the ground was short and they climbed out of the window and over the prison fence to a parked vehicle.

The former Liberian leader said two men were in the car waiting and they drove him to New York where he was assured of being okay.

“The guards who set me free had to be operating with someone else. And I assume that the car that took me to New York had to be a US government car,” Taylor disclosed.

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