Missing gun underlines Labor’s prison shame

Alarm bells should be ringing after a three-day lock-down at high-security Lotus Glen Prison failed to find a missing 9mm Glock pistol, the State Opposition said today.

LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Government needed to explain how a semi-automatic pistol was able to ‘go missing’ from a locked armoury.

“You have really got to wonder what’s going on, because we’re now hearing the prison was under-staffed at the time, by as much as 25 per cent,” Mr Langbroek said.

“Queenslanders need some straight answers from the Minister about how a semi-automatic pistol can just disappear in a high-security jail.

“We need answers about who had access to the armoury …when the number of guns were checked and who signed-off on the count.”

Mr Langbroek said the incident was further evidence of Labor’s poor management of the State’s prison system.