31 October 2007: Friendly Smuggling

A 19-year-old woman appears to have escaped from a juvenile detention centre in northwest Germany by hiding in the suitcase of a fellow inmate who was being released.

Prison officers at the facility had noted that the suitcase of the released 18-year-old was particularly heavy, but failed to search it.

The fact that the other woman was missing was only noticed several hours later during the routine evening check of cells at the centre.

The police are looking for the two young women.