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.

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

Sterling Williams, 33, was a maintenance worker who cut the water to a jail cell, allowing 10 men to escape, investigators said.