 An officer at the second gate recognised one of the prisoners and ran into an office and pressed an alarm button, and the prisoners ran through the second gate towards the outer gate.An officer at the outer gate tried to prevent the escape but was attacked by the prisoners, who escaped onto Crumlin Road.As the prisoners were moving towards the car park where two cars were waiting, an unmarked RUC car pulled up across the street outside Crumlin Road Courthouse.