THE despatch CHRISTMAS 2023
alongside Dillinger, was shot dead by police in Port Huron, Michigan, 318
miles away from the prison.
Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as ‘ El Chapo, ’ was a notorious
Mexican drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa cartel. He has escaped
from two separate high - security Mexican prisons. In 2001, Chapo made
his first jailbreak, wheeled out of the prison in a laundry cart by a guard.
El Chapo remained at large until 2014, when he was recaptured and sent
to Altiplano prison, the highest security prison in Mexico.
An Accidental Beginning
DUCKS (Dulwich College Kindergarten and Infant school) was not started on purpose.
It was 1991, and the College nurse, Sister Dorothy Simmonds - Abbott was
requested to look after the young son of a staff member. After this, more
and more staff members put their children in daytime care at the
College, and from this arose DUCKS in a couple of rooms in the
Sanatorium. When Eller Bank was bought by DC, it was decided to move
DUCKS there. Unfortunately, a fire in 1996 destroyed most of the old
building behind the main house. After this, a new wooden building was
constructed which was opened by Sir Robin Butler in 1997. The new
building took the place of an old bowling green. Numbers of students
have been slowly rising, from five in 1992 to over two hundred today. In
2001 DUCKS formally became part of Dulwich College, the only part to be
co - ed. Recently, a forest school was established, to teach the children
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