"I was in a holding cell on my own. There was a pipe on the floor under the windows... I got hold of it as some of it was rusted. With this piece, I was able to lift off the hinges of the grid over the louvre panels of the outside windows.
"I had to hit the hinges to get them loose. Then I used the entire pipe to break open the louvre.
"I am not sure of the date; all I know is that the prison guards were singing Happy Birthday to someone, and clapping hands and making a lot of noise."
The "partying" guards gave him ample opportunity, and he left his cell using a rope made from two blankets.
"As I was climbing down, the rope broke and I fell to the floor. There was a gate and a guard was sleeping. There was another guard, also asleep. The gate had a lever."
Lots of people used that gate while the guards were asleep, and Mathe waited for more to move into the building before he found the right moment to make his getaway.
"Nobody noticed me nor asked me who I was, or where I was going. I was in my civil(ian) clothes and made my getaway," he said.
At the time of his escape from C-Max last year, officers had just been paid their salaries and were "watching soccer and it was raining. It was the ideal time to escape."
No one was in the guard tower. "I jumped the two fences... and went straight onto the highway."
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