Irishman who escaped Australian jail by ‘tying sheets together & scaling building' arrested after Hollywood-style escape
Michael Connors, 26, fled by scaling down the building's wall using bed sheets he'd tied together.
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He was initially banged up in March after trying to enter Oz on a false passport.
He was finally arrested this week after cops tracked him down to a suburb in
Connors was extradited to Queensland and he appeared in Brisbane Arrest Court on Saturday morning.
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He was charged with two migration offences — one count of escaping from detention and one count of using false documents and false or misleading info.
The maximum penalty for the false documents offence is ten years in the slammer.
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'The man allegedly escaped detention after tying bedsheets together and scaling down the side of a building.'
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No application for bail was made by his lawyer and he was remanded in custody. He'll be back before the court on August 15.
Aussie cops previously told how Connors has outstanding court matters in Victoria and New South
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Reports in Australia claim that Connors had been using a range of aliases including Craig O'Neill, Michael O'Brien and John Cash.
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Michael Connors fled by scaling down the building's wall using bed sheets he'd tied together
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