Convicted for attempted murder of a policeman, Robert Foye was serving time at the Castle Huntly prison in Scotland built in 1452. He was allowed out to attend AA Meetings. He absconded and raped a 16 year old girl.
Crackdown slashes number of escapes from Castle Huntly
By GARETH ROSE
Published on Wednesday 5 September 2012
THE number of inmates absconding from Castle Huntly open prison has fallen from 66 to just 12 in four years. The drop follows a review of how prisoners are screened in the wake of high-profile escapes, including those of Robert Foye and Brian Martin. The review has seen the number of offenders moved to the open estate halved from almost 500 to about 250 over the four years.
Despite this, the prison service admits it cannot eliminate the risk that prisoners at Castle Huntly will continue to abscond. Foye, 31, raped a 16-year-old girl in Cumbernauld in 2007 while on the run from Castle Huntly. He was serving a ten-year sentence for the attempted murder of a policeman and had been allowed out to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Martin, known as “The Hawk”, was three years into a ten-year sentence for a crime involving a firearm when he absconded in 2009.
He handed himself back in after a week on the run.
Prison governor Fraser Munro said: “There’s been a steady decrease [in absconding] since we implemented far more robust procedures after Foye and Martin, involving partners in social work. “We request home background reports and anything from police which might help inform our decisions.” Among those who have absconded from Castle Huntly in recent months are Jimmy Holland, who was serving eight years for assault and robbery. He was found in bed with prison warder Christine Roberton in her flat.
Robertson, who was naked when discovered by police, was later found guilty of harbouring Holland and jailed for 18 months. Convicted murderer Daniel Soners, 49, was arrested in Glasgow, having failed to return to Castle Huntly, on 7 March, after being granted home leave. However, Mr Munro said: “While I appreciate the public’s view that 12 is too many, when you’ve got hundreds of opportunities to abscond, 12 is fantastic.
“You can hold that record up against any jurisdiction in Europe.”
Castle Huntly was also praised in an inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons, Brigadier Hugh Monro.
“Absconds are always a concern, yet it is clear from the figures that they have reduced markedly from 66 in 2007-8 to just 12 last year.”
However, he warned more needed to be done to prepare prisoners for release, highlighting weaknesses such as limited educational training and recreational activities, and the lack of a course addressing domestic violence. “I think the open estate can do even better in ensuring that prisoners have as a good a chance as possible, when they get back out into communities,” he said.
For years citizens have been threatened by AA and NA members who advertise and claim our Holly Hill Florida public parks/playgrounds as their place of business.The citizens who were threatened by members of these organizations quickly realized that they were helpless against the “Anonymous wall of silence.” Organizers of these meetings made it clear that they would not cooperate with police concerning any investigations of abuse caused by their members! Even the police were not interested in how these repeat offenders threatened the local citizens.
Citizens were told by these organizations headquarters that they take no responsibility or accountability for the actions of the members. They informed the citizens that it was a police matter. The police informed the citizens that they were not going to write up any reports and consistently blamed the innocent victims time and time again to protect the AA/NA public image.
What I’m leading up to is that these Organizations and the police insinuated that the citizens must be at fault, and they denied that these things happened.If anything did happen it must have been an isolated incident. Well up until recently the “anonymous wall of silence,” has been able to keep a lid on the truth about abuses at meetings. I am thankful to say that victims, such as the citizens in Holly Hill, are finally beginning to be heard throughout the world as the media has recently decided to lift the veil of silence and tell the truth.
This was far from being isolated incidents! READ THE ARTICLES IN THIS WEBSITES ARCHIVES !
THIS IS A VALID ” WORLDWIDE “PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN!