He had escaped from jail. He was on the run. To prison, of all places. But the cops didn't recognize him. Mei, a convicted burglar, escaped from New Zealand's Rangipo Prison in November last year.
Most escapees head for their families, in a bid to get help.
But he succeeded in visiting her in February, the Dominion newspaper reported. Prison officials failed to recognize him, and he spent some time chatting to her, and left quietly afterwards, unmolested by law enforcement officers. Mei was eventually caught by police in March. And this time it seemed that he would never escape, because he was diagnosed as having asthma and a dislocated knee. This follows the tale of a lovesick woman who hijacked a helicopter and took it into a prison yard in Australia, to successfully rescue her jailbird boyfriend.