Prisoner charged over bungled armed jailbreak scheme at Casuarina Prison in Perth

WA Police have charged a prisoner and his associate for allegedly conspiring to free an inmate from Casuarina Prison using firearms.

Both 24-year-old men were charged with conspiracy to forcibly free or attempt to free a person who was serving a murder sentence.

The men appeared separately in the Perth Magistrates Court on Friday.

Inmate Robert Wayne Edhouse appeared via video link from prison but refused to say anything.

He was in shackles and would not answer when the magistrate, Thomas Hall, repeatedly asked him if his name was Robert Wayne…