Hunt for woman who allegedly ESCAPED from hotel quarantine by racing down a fire escape
- Police are searching for a mystery woman who allegedly fled hotel quarantine
- Assistant Commissioner Craig Patterson claims she was travelling with a false ID
- She arrived from the NT and fled by racing down the fire escape, police claim
Police are desperately trying to track down a woman who allegedly fled a hotel quarantine facility by dodging security guards and racing down a fire escape.
The mystery woman entered South Australia on a flight from Darwin at about 2.45pm on Saturday before being taken to the Pullman medi-hotel on Hindmarsh Square in Adelaide, where she was required to remain for 14 days.
Assistant Commissioner Craig Patterson said shortly after arriving at 7.45pm, she made a run for it – becoming the third person to allegedly breach South Australia’s Covid quarantine system since August.
It was later claimed by police that the driver’s licence she was travelling on was a fake.
Police are desperately trying to track down a woman (pictured on CCTV) who they accuse of fleeing a hotel quarantine facility by dodging security guards and climbing down a fire escape
The alleged escape was captured on CCTV and witnessed by a member of security on the ground floor at the exit, but the guard was unable to stop her, police say.
Assistant Commissioner Patterson explained that security guards ‘don’t actually have any authority to go hands-on and stop the person’ as the medi-hotels are ‘not a prison’.
CCTV cameras allegedly captured the woman, who tested negative for coronavirus, getting into a taxi at the nearby intersection of Pulteney Street and Rundle Mall.
The driver dropped her to a block of flats in Keswick in the southwest of the city.
The mystery woman entered South Australia on a flight from Darwin at about 2:45pm on Saturday before being taken to the Pullman medi-hotel on Hindmarsh Square in Adelaide (pictured), where she was required to remain for 14 days
The woman, who has dark hair, was last wearing a tan-coloured dress with thongs and a black handbag.
Anyone with any information about her identity or whereabouts is urged to contact police immediately.
The incidents comes after two highly-publicised breaches of the public health orders in the state.
One month earlier a woman, 18, and a man, 22, were arrested after they were allegedly caught in the same room of a medi-hotel in Adelaide.
In August, a New South Wales man was sentenced to 14 days in prison for skipping out on hotel quarantine to go out for a beer at a nearby pub.
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