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On March 24 1989,a prisoner, john Stuart Gladwin who was in Fremantle Prison for armed robbery, was on sick parade at the Prison Hospital. At around 10 am a garbage truck paid its weekly visit to collect rubbish from the Hospital kitchen. The prisoners used a knife to overpower the driver and commandeered the truck. He’s driving the truck across the East Bank and rammed the metal gates in the south wall. On the fourth attempt He managed to break through by taking the gates partly off their hinges. The guard in No. 3 gun tower fired on the truck, shooting out the front tires as the truck was reversing into the street. The prisoner drive the truck south along Hampton Road less than a kilometer to Wray Avenue where he abandoned it in the middle of the road. He then drag a taxi driver from a cab outside the Beaconsfield Hotel and continues south along Hampton Road where a chase begin involving several police cars and three police helicopters.
At 10.45 am he abandoned the cab in Yangebup taking to Bushland near the railway line. Gladwin ran into a nearby residence and menaced two male occupants with the 30cm knife. Both men were ordered outside to their car where one of them escaped and raised the alarm. Gladwin drove away with the other man as hostage in the stolen car.
Police lost track of the vehicle for more than an hour but at 12.40 pm it was seen in Kelmscott. Detectives chased and stopped the stolen car in a side street off Albany Highway. Abandoning the car and his hostage, but Gladwin escaped the cops had lost him. So please if any one has any information about Gladwin please call us on the number 911.