Like a scene from The Shawshank Redemption, a Kiwi prisoner has cut his way to freedom with an angle grinder, leaving police with the taunt: "Catch me if u can."

An infamous prison escapee, Kevin Polwart has done it again, this time breaking out of an Auckland prison using a concrete cutter given to him by jail staff.

The 49-year-old robber left behind a cartoon drawing of a rabbit with the hand-written caption: "Catch me if u can."

According to Kiwi media and the cops, the move was "classic Polwart". The escape artist liked to have a "bit of a profile", even going so far as to regularly phone news networks with updates after he broke out of a Wellington jail with wire cutters in 2001.

That time he spent 41 days on the run, calling in with witty commentary on life on the other side.