Chris Carey escaped from prison on Tuesday and according to a report in the Mirror newspaper, UK police are searching for him. He had been serving a four year sentence for piracy of BSkyB. The escape came ten days after a court in the UK dismissed an appeal for the sentence to be quashed.

After having pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud BSkyB in February, Carey was jailed for four years. No doubt the news of the escape will upset those in BSkyB and News Datacom who had considered that the piracy of their system was stopped.

The prison that Carey escaped from was a low security "open prison". Most of the inmates are white collar criminals and inmates were trusted not to abscond. Carey apparently took a break from his job in the stores telling warders that he was going to take a visit. He then went to the prison farm with a potted plant apparently to get some compost for it. A white Peugeot car pulled up and Carey ran to it and got in. The car left at high speed.

Police were expecting Carey to make his way to Spain. They are apparently watching the airports and seaports in the hope that they will catch him. According to the Mirror Newspaper, most of Carey's UK assets belived to be worth in the region of £2.5 Million have been liquidated and sent abroad.