The worker did not know about the men’s plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet to create an opening for their escape, his attorney said.

The maintenance worker at the centre of a New Orleans jailbreak has insisted he had no knowledge of the crime being committed despite accusations that he helped aid the escape. Last Friday, 10 men escaped from the Orleans Justice Centre after breaking through a hole behind a toilet,

A lawyer for a worker charged with aiding the New Orleans jailbreak by 10 prisoners says the employee shut off water to unclog a toilet, not to allow the men to cut the pipe to open an escape