wire fence. They then killed a police officer, Constable George Taylor and stole his panda car. Hospital authorities took 40 minutes to raise the alarm. Mone and McCulloch were captured near Carlisle in northern England, having changed to an Austin, after a high-speed chase down the A74. Four Scottish police vehicles were joined by reinforcements from Cumbria Constabulary, and they forced the fugitives onto a slip road of the M6 motorway where they crashed. Despite the police presence, they tried to seize a car that had stopped at the crash, before being restrained by police, three of whom were awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. Prison In early 1977 Mone pleaded guilty to the murder of Taylor, and McCulloch to all three murders. They were imprisoned for life, with a recommendation from Lord Dunpark that they never be released, on 31 March. In May 1981, Mone mounted a rooftop protest at his conditions in HMP Perth. Mone's father, Robert Christopher "Sonny" Mone, murdered his aunt and two other women in Dundee after his son's conviction. In 1983, years into his life sentence, Robert Mone was stabbed to death in Craiginches Prison by a fellow inmate. Mone had six months added to his sentence in 1995 for assaulting a fellow prisoner. In 2002 his sentence was reduced to 25 years under the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In 2007, when he was allowed out on day release survivors of the 1967 incident, and politicians Jim McGovern and David McLetchie, argued that Mone should never be released, with McLetchie saying that the ECHR had "crippled the justice system". He was sent back to high security in Glenochil Prison in 2008 following fears that he was planning another escape. McCulloch was released in 2013, but Mone remains in prison. While there, he has studied law and philosophy, and transcribed books into Braille. He is Scotland's longest-serving prisoner. See also Sharon Carr – British murderer who repeatedly stabbed a pupil at her school in 1994 List of attacks related to secondary schools List of serial killers by number of victims References Citations Bibliography 1948 births 1967 murders in the United Kingdom 1976 murders in the United Kingdom 1995 crimes in the United Kingdom 20th-century Scottish criminals Gordon Highlanders soldiers Living people People acquitted by reason of insanity People detained in hospitals in the United Kingdom People from Dundee Scottish escapees Scottish