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,

Of the 10 inmates who fled early that morning, five have been recaptured as of May 21 and are being held at the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Three Orleans Parish jail inmates staged an unsuccessful escape attempt through the ceiling of pod 1D roughly two weeks before the 10-person jailbreak via its toilet on May 16, court records show.