Twenty-eight-year-old John McVicar was holed up in Durham’s fortress-like E Wing with some of the country’s toughest lags. It was a ‘prison within a prison’ and considered virtually escape ...

A notorious jailbreaker who famously broke out of Durham Prison in 1968 has died, aged 82, following a heart attack. John McVicar rose to fame during a police manhunt after he broke out of the ...

In the fifth and final of our On The Run crime series reporter Keiran Southern looks at the case of John McVicar, the bank robber who escaped from Durham Prison. John McVicar launched a nationwide ...

Instead, it is a crime film about McVicar’s 1968 prison break that’s told with an austere, turn-of-the-’80s aesthetic comparable to Scum, The Black Panther and The Long Good Friday.