Man who escaped from B.C. jail with guard's help may turn himself in

Published Friday August 8th, 2008

THE CANADIAN PRESS

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who escaped from a Metro Vancouver prison with the help of a guard is offering to turn himself in.

Omid Tahvili walked out of the North Fraser Pre-Trial Centre in Coquitlam last November. He'd been awaiting sentencing on convictions for kidnapping and sexual assault stemming from the 2005 abduction and torture of a man for information about drug money.

The guard who helped Thavili escape, Edward Tichne, was charged with obstruction of justice and accepting a bribe and pleaded guilty in April.

At a sentencing hearing for him in New Westminster, Crown Counsel Wendy Dawson told the court Thavili has called the police and offered to negotiate his surrender.

It's not clear where Tahvili is, but he may be in Toronto.

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