G4S staff sacked for tagging offender's false leg

man deceive employees of security firm bandage wrapped around the prosthesis, which allows you to remove the curfew and making fun of the court

private security firm G4S has laid off two staff members to label the leg of a false man, allowing you to remove and bypass the curfew imposed by the court.

Lowcock Christopher, 29, drew the two employees, involving a prosthetic leg with a bandage when the label was created at his home in Rochdale Manchester, Greater.

He was then able to delete the member and breaking the curfew imposed for drug crimes, conduct and a weapon. G4S said goodbye to the couple for having committed a serious disciplinary offense, he said.

In a statement, the Department of Justice (Justice) has stated that the procedures "of course was not followed in this case and G4S have taken action against those involved. two thousand criminals mark all week and such incidents are very rare, "said a spokesman.

revealed G4S managers began to suspect last month, but when they returned home from Lowcock who had been returned to custody charged with a crime related to driving. The company said that the second employee who was looking for teams of home monitoring Lowcock was also fired for failing to realize that the label had cheated on his false leg.

A spokesman said the electronic tags "70,000 people a year for the Department of Justice. Given the critical nature of this service, we have strict security procedures are in place, all our staff to follow. In the case of both individual employees do not adhere to correct procedures when installing the label. If they had, would have identified his artificial leg. "

The two employees in question had committed a serious disciplinary offense by not following the procedure and had been fired, he said.