A teenage boy arrested over a carjacking on the Gold Coast has escaped police custody after an ’embarrassing’ bungle at the Southport Watchhouse.
The 15-year-old boy escaped custody on Saturday when he posed as another prisoner who was granted bail at the watchhouse, the Courier Mail reports.
When he was accidentally granted leave at the watchhouse he jumped a fence and dodged policemen who pursued him on foot through the streets of Southport.
The boy remains on the run, with police urging him to hand himself in, the Courier Mail reports.
The young couple allegedly asked a 24-year-old woman for a lift home from Harbour Town Shopping Centre on the Gold Coast on Thursday night after they claimed a man was chasing them.
When the 24-year-old woman gave them a lift, she claimed they held a knife to her throat and demanded her handbag and car.
The woman reportedly struck the girl with her car in an atempt to escape the violent carjacking.
The boy fled the scene, and left his seriously injured girlfriend at the scene. She was later taken to hospital where she remains in a critical condition.
Acting Inspector Brett MacGibbon said the Queensland Police Service was ’embarrassed’ they had allowed the boy to escape from custody on Saturday.
‘It is a bit embarrassing,’ he said.
‘I would hope that it wouldn’t be that easy.’
Inspector MacGibbon said the boy pretended to be another juvenile detainee who was granted bail.
When the detainee’s name was read out, the teenager stepped out in his place.
Police realised their mistake about 30 seconds after the boy was released, he said.
The incident will be investigated internally by the Queensland Police Service.
The boy’s escape comes just 24 hours after he was arrested over the carjacking.
Queensland Ambulance Service’s Paul Barry said it was a ‘very confronting scene for paramedics’ when they arrived at the crash on Thursday night.
Mr Barry said the 15-year-old girl was badly injured.
‘It’s a very young and tender age and she required some stabilisation,’ he said.
The 15-year-old boy allegedly fled the scene of the crash, leaving his girlfriend for dead…
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