A former British serviceman has miraculously made it back to the UK after breaking out of an Afghanistan prison and boarding a plane without a passport.

Ian Cameron, who served for 24 years in the Royal Military Police, made a daring dash across blood-soaked streets in flip flops.

Known as ‘The Milkman’ in Kabul for supplying booze to politicians and thirsty foreigners, he was detained in March after police seized a stash including 730 bottles of spirits and 1,160 bottles of beer.

As Taliban militants took hold of the Afghan capital on Sunday, he called his wife Sally to ‘tell her I loved her’ as he thought ‘this might be it’.

Cameron was serving five years in prison for illegally trading alcohol, which had been cut from 18 years on appeal.

He described conditions inside the Counter Narcotics Detention Centre in Kabul as ‘atrocious’ and of being fed a ‘loaf of bread that looked like a brick’.

His chance to get out presented itself when a guard unbolted a safe room door after a gunfight broke out and as many as 1,000 inmates seized their chance to embrace freedom.

Cameron, 56, described the two-hour journey across the city to Hamid Karzai International Airport amid devastation on the streets.

He told the Sun: ‘There were pools of blood everywhere, all the way up the road. I have never seen so much blood.

“I could tell that people had died, but the bodies were already gone.’

He added: ‘I’ve been in a few tight spots but I can honestly say, with my hand on my heart, this was the first time I thought, “I might be a goner”.’

Fellow former inmates helped to disguise Cameron from standing out as a Westerner as they reached the airport.

A friend, Mohammed, helped him flag down a minibus to reach an area where British troops were processing evacuees.

Cameron, who took up private security work after retiring as a military policeman in 2004, said he felt ‘guilty’ getting out of Kabul as hundreds of Afghan families were left behind.

He made it onto an RAF C-17 cargo jet to Dubai and a chartered flight took him back to Birmingham, where he is now isolating.

The evacuation of Brits from Afghanistan is continuing this weekend with special forces troops deployed to locate individuals struggling to make RAF flights.

But defence minister James Heappey has said he is kept ‘awake at night’ by the knowledge the UK will not be able to get ‘absolutely everybody out’.

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