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A wanted man turned himself in to police in West Sussex on Wednesday because he did not want to spend another minute with the people he lived with during the COVID-19 exclusion. The guardian reports.
Inspector Darren Taylor, of the Sussex Police Department, shared the strange incident on Twitter, claiming that the unidentified man, who is being sought ‘for remand in jail’, was chasing ‘tranquility’ when he surrendered. “and going back to jail to serve a further time on his own,” Taylor wrote.
Tranquility and silence! Wanted male surrendered himself to the team yesterday afternoon after telling us that he would rather go back to jail and then have to spend more time with the people he lives with! One in custody and on his way back to jail to serve a further time on his own pic.twitter.com/zCwLo0fgDQ
– Inspector Darren Taylor (@InspectorDarren) 18 February 2021
Strange as it may seem, someone would seek the “comfort” of a life behind bars, a man named Robert Vick once escapes from a minimum security prison in Kentucky, but gives himself a few miles further at a motel the next day because it was too cold outside.
On the day Vick surrendered, the temperature in Lexington was 3 degrees with a wind chill of 17 below. “He was frozen,” said Maurice King, manager of the Sunset Motel and Restaurant. “He walked in and knocked on my door and said I should call the law on him.”
Vick was sentenced to six years for housebreaking and possession of a counterfeit instrument.
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