FEATURE

Call for inquiry into mass torture in Grenada prison 

by Leroy Noel

Friday, November 19, 2004

ST GEORGE¹S, Grenada: Well over 100 inmates at the Richmond Hill Prison in Grenada say they are prepared to co-operate and testify on oath whenever an Independent Commission of Inquiry, including prison officers, is established to investigate beatings, humiliations and general terror unleashed on some prisoners on Tuesday September 21 at approximately 3.40 pm.

An outspoken male who saw the ordeal was among half a dozen who related to Caribbean Net News what they saw happen.

All witnesses coincided in saying that on Tuesday, September 21, 2004, an armed contingent of Caribbean troops, part of the Regional Security System (RSS), accompanied by some Grenadian police from the Special Services Unit (SSU), and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and with a senior prison officer entered the prison compound.

They added that their entrance at the prison gate was not an ordinary one.

“They were firing guns rapidly in the air, and shouting the command for all prisoners within their sight and hearing to immediately lie down on the ground on their stomachs wherever they were, and place their hands behind their heads or face death.”

The following is a detailed verbatim account given by an eye witness of what actually happened on 21 September at the Richmond Hill Prison:

On a day of state sponsored beatings, torture and vandalism at Richmond Hill Prison, St. George¹s, Grenada, many of the troops came from Antigua, some from St. Vincent, and Dominica, and one from Barbados, according to what I saw and the reports of most of the inmates who experienced this event, based on the island-accents they picked up, and, in a few cases, based on the knowledge of some of the RSS troops by Richmond Hill Prison inmates who came originally from the same territories as some of the troops.

Within less than one minute, nearly two hundred prisoners (193, to be exact) were forced, at gunpoint and gunshots, to lie prostrate on the ground. These RSS-led forces issued the order for all the prisoners to remove all of their clothing. This was enforced with further shooting, gun butts, planassing (i.e., using the flat part of the cutlass to beat people) of several of the prisoners, and kicks to the ribs and head of some of them. 

In short order, every yard of the prison was filled with stark naked prisoners lying flat on their stomachs, hands on their heads, and both bemused and frightened by the suddenness and the indiscriminate violence of it all. But their fright from the gunfire, the lashes and kicks, and the sudden humiliation of being forced to strip naked in public soon turned to naked (no pun intended) terror. The REAL violence was about to begin.

These troops proceeded to beat prisoners indiscriminately and mercilessly with a variety of weapons: telephone cable, planks of ‘two-by-four¹ wood, the flat side of cutlasses, a piece of iron, and the boots on their feet.

Soon, there were prisoners bawling and crying and begging for mercy all over the place. There was no let up in the violence as a result of this, but rather an intensification of the ‘licks¹ being meted out to ‘all and sundry¹.

One of the RSS troops shouted out: “All those whose names begin with a ‘T¹, raise one hand”. A young prisoner, Trevor Parks, small and frail in build, and exemplary in his conduct in prison, raised his hand. “Well, today, ‘T¹ stands for Trouble”, and with that declaration, this man beat young Trevor Parks all over his body. At one point the RSS man spotted a small bible in one of Park¹s hands which was clasped to his head as he lay on the ground. (Parks goes everywhere with his bible, and reads from it constantly). 

The RSS man kicked it out of his hand severely, shouting, “That can¹t save you now!” One week later, he still had difficulty walking, and remains in constant pain to this day, still waiting to see a doctor. Several others of the RSS forces shouted out that they wanted to know all those who were homosexuals, because “we gonna bull (i.e., sexually abuse or rape) you all tonight”. 

They then kicked and gun butted those nearest to them, deciding randomly that these must be the homosexuals, and demanding that they wine and “bum the ground” (i.e., simulate the waist and pelvic motions of having sex) right there on the dirty ground, stark naked, or be further beaten up.

One elderly prisoner with serious medical problems (Stephen Andall) was ordered to strip, lie on the ground naked and “sex the ground!” “Sir, I¹m an old man. Please spare me; I¹m not involved in any troublemaking. I¹m sick,” he pleaded.

“Man we don¹t want to hear this! Strip and sex the ground,” one ordered, and kicked him in his ribs while others poked him with their gun butts.

Some prisoners were randomly selected and made to stay by a bench, while the RSS troops pelted them with stones. If they lifted their hands to defend their faces from the rocks, two others from the RSS with long sticks would strike them hard on their hands and shoulders.

Some of the RSS troops focused their ‘efforts¹ on whom they were told were the ringleaders of ‘the trouble’. The ‘trouble’ referred to the activities of 15 to 20 (out of 70 or so) men located in the Remand Area of the prison, who had effectively taken control of that area of the prison over the fourteen day period following Hurricane Ivan, had left and entered the prison nightly through the Ivan-damaged prison wall, brought back cutlasses, knives, and reportedly even a gun; as also rum, marijuana and cocaine, which they proceeded to consume daily; while forcibly preventing the entry of prison officers into their area, namely the Remand Area of the prison.

The identities of these reckless troublemakers was well known to all the prison officers, as they operated openly, and openly defied all efforts of prison officials, including the Commissioner, to reason with them. When fellow prisoners sought to reason with them with a view to their ending their mad escapade, these fellow prisoners were threatened by the four ringleaders. 

Several inmates whose normal living quarters were in the Remand Section moved out of there completely, and went to live in other areas of the prison. They wished to have no association with ‘these lunatics¹, as some of them called the troublemakers. Other inmates, most notably among them being Junior Thomas, stayed in the Remand Area, both to protect the Computer Room equipment of the prison (which was housed in the Remand Area), and to use his influence with some of these elements so as to prevent them from their stated intention of burning down the entire prison. In this he was successful on two occasions. 

By the 21st, the four ringleaders, becoming frustrated by his countervailing influence on their followers, reportedly threatened to kill him. [Junior Thomas¹ “reward” for his efforts was to be forcibly transported, in chains, to St Lucia, with Grenadians being led to believe that he was one of the leading troublemakers!] 

For virtually all of the fourteen days of rebellion and chaos in the Remand Area, various inmates suggested to the prison authorities that they snatch the ring leaders whenever they left the remand section ­ as they often did ­ to seek food, or water, or other things, virtually daily. This advice was ignored. Instead, those in authority did nothing, and the ringleaders consequently became even bolder in their conduct. On the night before they were finally rounded up on the 21st, they chiselled their way through the wall separating the Remand Area from the prison storeroom, and stole food, water, and hacksaws, cutlasses, and other such dangerous implements.

When all of this became known to the general inmate population, several inmates from the other sections of the prison repeated the suggestion to the authorities to organize a snatch squad and grab the leaders as soon as they ventured out of the Remand Area, OR close the gates between there and their areas. All inmates were terrified of being killed, should these men attempt to burn down the entire prison (as they were threatening to do). 

The authorities chose, instead, the path of bringing in outside troops, and unleashing them on ALL prisoners from ALL sections of the prison, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE INVADING FORCES CAME WITH A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE TROUBLE MAKERS. They chose not to storm and subdue the Remand Area, separate out the many inmates there who were totally uninvolved in the rebellion (with the help of prison officers for identification purposes), and then arrest and detain, remove and charge the troublemakers; all of whose names they came to the prison with, (on a list; presumably supplied either by the Commissioner of Prisons or one of his senior staff). Instead, they made every prisoner, from every section of the prison feel that he was a devil, and should be treated accordingly. 

Every section of the prison was treated in this manner, except the Security Section ­ and even they were ordered out to be treated in like manner, but the Prison Welfare Officer, Mr. Dickson, fortuitously, arrived on the scene just at that moment, and so prevented the Grenada Seventeen political prisoners, apart from three of their number already abused, from being thus brutalized. After vigorous representations from some members of the Grenada 17 who were already at gunpoint but refusing to go down on the ground, he intervened and shouted, “No, no, not these men. They give no trouble and always cooperate with the authorities. Leave them alone”. Words to that effect.

One of the RSS troops focusing on the ringleaders was an Antiguan member of the RSS, wielding a large piece of iron. ‘Craack¹ went the impact of a blow from the iron on one of the four alleged ringleaders, Glen Samuel, as the bones of one of his hands received the impact. “Tell us where you have the cutlasses and the gun.” ‘Craack¹ went the blow to one of his ribs, then another, then one to his feet. He was ‘asked¹ these questions as a result of other inmates, under similar blows, calling his name as one of the men who had had possession of these implements. 

He, in turn, called other inmates¹ names. Inmates, under this intense torture, were calling any name they could recall; even the names of persons not in the prison! [One reason why skilled investigators say that statements taken under torture are totally unreliable, if one really wants to discover the truth about any particular matter. People being tortured will say anything, especially whatever they believe will please or satisfy the torturer and end the torture.] 

Glen Samuel was kicked, cuffed, and beaten with the iron until he lost consciousness. All this in broad daylight, and in full view of scores of prisoners, prison officers, and CID police officers. And all of this while Samuel lay naked on the ground, motionless except for the screams from his mouth before those, too, ceased, with his loss of consciousness. Water from a bucket was then splashed on his body to revive him, and then the blows resumed. He was eventually carted away on a piece of board (acting as a stretcher), as he was unable to walk. He was taken to the general hospital and hospitalised until the Friday afternoon of that week.

Another RSS man, observing the welts already on Denroy Lawlite¹s back from previous blows, remarked, “I see you get nuff [enough] blows on that back already.” A pause for effect, and then, “But you have more to get ­ from me”, and with that, more blows rained down on this defenceless inmate.

Other RSS men walked on the heads and faces of the inmates as they lay still and frightened on the ground; some pausing to twist their boots into the faces of some of the inmates. A few Grenadian police, and at least one prison officer, followed the RSS lead and did likewise. One senior (prison) officer walked on the back of a prisoner, Terron Ettienne, who ironically hails from the same village as the prison officer. 

In the same way that the four ringleaders in the Remand Area of the prison had a dozen or so who were prepared to follow them in breaking both the prison rules and several of the laws of Grenada, so too did those who came into the prison supposedly to restore law and order but who instead engaged in an orgy of indiscriminate violence and the breaking of several sections of the Criminal Code of Grenada. They too had a dozen or so Grenadian followers, from the Grenadian police and among some of the prison officers.

Damion Joseph is a young prisoner on remand, charged for stealing something valued at about EC$18.00. Despite the desperate overcrowding at the prison at this time, he was nevertheless denied bail on Tuesday September 21st and further remanded. When the RSS police stormed the prison on Tuesday afternoon, Damion Joseph was outside of the immediate prison walls but on the prison property. He was shot at by several RSS police. He therefore surrendered with his arms in the air. He was unarmed. A Grenadian police [name withheld] ordered him to turn around with his hands behind his head.

This he did. But instead of handcuffing him and taking him into the prison, the Grenadian police cocked his M16 rifle saying, “You went out good (i.e. in good physical shape); you can¹t come back the same way,” and with that he shot Damion in both legs from a distance of about 5 feet. He was then taken into the Gate Lodge of the prison and further beaten by a senior prison officer [name withheld]. He was later hospitalised until he was returned to the prison on Friday afternoon. Both legs heavily bandaged, and still in great pain in one of the two legs shot.

Another RSS “follower” was one of the junior prison officers [The names of all those involved in these activities will be provided by the scores of eyewitnesses if ever and whenever an official, independent inquiry is established] A prisoner by the name of Nathaniel McGillivery, under medical care with high blood pressure, and for a problem with his ear for the past year, was lying on the ground, naked, like all other prisoners. 

Suddenly, this prison officer called an RSS police or soldier, and told the man that McGillivery had just told him that he, McGillivery, will take over the prison once the RSS troops leave Grenada. With that, the RSS man mercilessly beat McGillivery with a piece of iron. They also removed one of the twenty they were planning to send to St. Lucia¹s prison, and put McGillivery in his place.

One of the most striking aspects of that day was vandalism. They systematically smashed every radio and Walkman in every cell in the Remand Area saying, “We don¹t have these in our prisons.” Another striking feature of the beatings, torture, and terror was the treatment of the physically and mentally challenged prisoners at the prison. 

Prisoners with asthma, with heart problems, with terminal cancer, prisoners struggling to walk, prisoners visibly mentally challenged ­ none of them ever in trouble with the prison authorities ­ were all made to strip naked and lie on the ground, AND ALMOST ALL OF THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED INMATES WERE BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ABUSED BY THESE RSS ‘troops’. A sample of the names and specifics of those so treated forms part of the appendix to this report.

The terror lasted a full two hours for the prison population as a whole.

That was how long most had to lie naked in the dirt of the prison yards while RSS-led troops walked on and over their heads and backs, and beat and kick various of them. When some sought medical attention, the medic¹s assistant, Leon Cornwall, was prevented from attending to them at gun point.

Several prison officers joined in this terrorization of prisoners, actually helping to beat prisoners lying prostrate on the ground. [As mentioned earlier, all their names and the specifics of their conduct will be provided, under oath, at an independent commission of inquiry.] However there were other prison officers who actively intervened to save many prisoners from a severe (and undeserved) beating. These professionals will also be named at the appropriate time.

However, for the twenty prisoners chosen by the Grenadian authorities to be indefinitely ‘deported’ (transported) from their own country to another sovereign state¹s prison, namely, to St Lucia¹s prison, the terror had just begun. [There was no sympathy among the vast majority of prisoners for the ringleaders and followers of the trouble in the Remand Area, who by their scandalous and criminal conduct had endangered everyone¹s lives. But many of the 20 were not in that category]. 

They were removed from the inner prison compound at gunpoint and taken up the hill to the Lion¹s Den. There they were made to spend the night huddled in the open air, and on the following day they were taken to St. Lucian Coast Guard boats for transportation to St Lucia. Many of them were beaten as they lay huddled together. Anyone snoring was beaten. Anyone found with his eyes open when the captors¹ flashlights fell on them was also beaten. When one of them, (Joie Thomas) asked permission to urinate, he was told to urinate in another prisoner¹s (Stalin Bruno¹s) mouth. And so it went, all night.

When it was time to ‘transport¹ them forcibly from their own country, their hands and feet were shackled with chains. And their chains were connected to each other, replicating with uncanny similarity the days of slavery and the Middle Passage. They were then taken, hooded (in violation of International law), by bus to the St Lucian Coast Guard boats, where they were reportedly chained to the bow of the boats. Every wave crashing down upon the boats during the reportedly fourteen-hour journey by sea would wash over them, keeping them wet and cold all night and into the early hours of the following day. Should the boats (or one of them) sink for whatever reason, the prisoners, chained as they were to the boat(s) and to each other, would die a horrible drowning death, even as the crew would be able to swim to safety.

The ‘invaders¹ announced that they would be back on Saturday for twenty more prisoners. The combination of the two hours of humiliation, beatings and torture on the afternoon of Tuesday the 21st, with worry in all prisoners¹ minds as to what was happening to the twenty taken to the Lion¹s Den [reports reaching back from sympathetic prison officers caused further shivers of fear] caused a spell of silence born of numbness and shock to descend throughout the prison. But the greatest fear among prisoners resulted from the question that each asked: “Am I one of the next 20?” “Am I on the list?” 

It is difficult to adequately describe the level of raw fear among almost every prisoner, from Tuesday night onwards, at this terrifying (to them all) prospect. To be taken from your country to another, separated from your friends and family, none of whom will be able to afford to visit the vast majority of these ‘deportees’; transported into a foreign prison, a different culture, even language (French Creole), operating on different written and unwritten rules of both officers and inmates of this foreign institution: all these factors stoked great fear amongst the prison population at Richmond Hill. 

But most shocking of all was the manner of transportation reminiscent of the Middle Passage No one was safe, all prisoners now realized. This is because the man who fought hardest to end the troublemakers¹ spree of chaos and attempted mayhem ­ Junior Thomas ­ was one of those ‘Transported’! Others who left the Remand Area as soon as they realized what the troublemakers were up to, and went to live in other areas of the prison so as not to be associated with these ‘crazies’, were nevertheless ‘on the list’ and deported in that first batch of twenty! 

Prisoners realized that if they had had any ‘personal run-ins’ with policemen in past years, they were likely to feature on the next list of 20. This is because some of the first 20 being described publicly as ‘hardcore criminals’ and ‘ring leaders and participants’ in the prison ‘uprising’ were no such thing. There is no way that prison officials could have placed their names on the list, given their hard work and good behaviour within the prison.

This state of fear lasted all of Wednesday (22nd), Thursday (23rd), Friday (24th), Saturday (25th), and most of Sunday (26th) ­ until the St Lucian Coast Guard boats were sighted by prisoners in St George¹s harbour in the late afternoon and armed prison officers started calling out the names of the next 20 to depart immediately, in slave chains, for St Lucia. 

With that, panic reached fever pitch amongst inmates, and some rushed to the toilets to urinate; others to hide, hoping they wouldn¹t be found. Inmates were made to leave for St Lucia with only the clothes on their backs and not even given an opportunity to pack away their belongings for family members to pick up later. [All their possessions have since been looted, as the prison authorities did nothing to secure their property]. They were not even permitted to have their supper, just served to them, before departure on a 14 hour journey. One inmate, for example ­ Otis Baptiste ­ had his cup of porridge and bread, just handed to him for supper, seized and dashed to the ground by a principal officer of the prison. “No time for that now!”, he shouted, as he threw away Baptiste¹s supper. 

That second list of 20 was even more surprising than the first. Many of the hardest working inmates were included; adding to those already on the first list. Many had worked outside the Governor General¹s residence and Prime Minister¹s office and residence, daily, over several years, with cutlasses and other dangerous implements in their hands. 

Some others were (are) among the most talented and hardest-working construction workers within the prison ­ just the sort who ought to have been organized into work brigades, under prison officers, to go throughout Grenada¹s communities hardest hit by Hurricane Ivan, and help villagers repair their homes; something many had, incidentally, begun to do during the first few days following Ivan, when they were permitted to go and look after their family¹s devastated homes.

Instead, all these individuals were being publicly branded as ‘hard core criminals’ and part of an ‘uprising’ in the prison, necessitating their expulsion, for an indeterminate period, to another CARICOM country, namely St Lucia. After the shock ‘deportation’ of Junior Thomas, the peacemaker, in the first batch of 20, the shock in the 2nd batch of 20 came from the ‘deportation’ of Johnny Francis. The son of one of Grenada¹s most respected retired Superintendents of Police, Johnny was (is) a model prisoner. All prisoners felt ‘if Johnny could be put on the list, NO ONE is safe!’ 

The explanation offered by many for this perplexing decision is that, while Johnny Francis is apolitical, his sister is a top activist for the opposition NDC political party. The decision, it is being suggested, therefore, was taken at a political, not a police or prison level. Indeed, during the week or so that Francis went home following Ivan, he spent half his time caring for his ailing father and looking after his other family members, on the one hand, and the other half assisting the SSU police at their barracks on the other! 

However it must be stressed that this allegation is just that: there is no evidence at hand to substantiate it; and indeed there is the alternative suggestion that Johnny¹s placement on the list was the work of a senior prison officer with a reputation as the biggest thief in the institution and about whom Johnny was overheard making an unkind comment about the way he was causing relief supplies for prisoners to disappear.

As the 2nd batch of 20 was being taken away, more fear was injected amongst prisoners, with the announcement that a further batch would be taken on Wednesday the 29th. Or maybe the day after. Or the following week. No one questions the absolute necessity for firm action to bring the gang of troublemakers to heel. Indeed, as mentioned earlier, prisoners throughout the prison had been calling on the Commissioner and other senior staff to do this throughout the fourteen day spree ‘enjoyed¹ by them. 

Moreover, when the RSS troops stormed through the gate lodge and into the Remand Area, ordering everyone in that area to hit the ground, place their hands above their heads and lie still ­ a process which was completed within the first sixty seconds of their storming the prison ­ they had done things the right way up to that point. Every one of the troublemakers [except McFarlane, who immediately hid in a tiny space on the prison compound but gave himself up the next morning and duly received his beating] was now fully subdued, as were scores of other prisoners. 

Had these RSS troops then permitted, (with the assistance of the prison staff present for identification purposes), the completely innocent and uninvolved inmates to get up off the ground and go to their respective cells and remain there until further notice, then this suggested second phase of the operation would have been executed within the law without in any way jeopardizing the mission. 

Instead, for the next two hours, every act committed by these troops once they had all the men under control and completely unarmed, constituted a series of criminal offences under the laws of Grenada, and a violation of several international conventions to boot. Instead of being the restorers of law and order, they became the principal violators ­ using violence gratuitously, and sending all these men the wrong message: that it is perfectly OK to use violence, even sadistically, once you are on the ‘right’ side, and wearing the right uniform.] 

Appendix I: 

Brief background on a small sample of those beaten:

Terron Ettienne: Stripped naked and made to lie face down in the yard. Walked upon by a senior officer and member of the Prison Executive. Ettienne is a model prisoner and was not involved in any disturbances in prison. He is trusted enough to be left from time to time in charge of the doctor¹s office of the prison.

Michael Louison: Mentally ill prisoner. He has never been charged with any misdemeanour in prison. Stripped naked and made to lie face down in the yard. Kicked and cuffed by RSS personnel.

Trevor Parke: Well behaved inmate. A member of the Christian group in the prison. Never involved in any act contrary to prison rules. He was severely beaten, kicked and cuffed. His head was crushed into the ground by an RSS officer¹s boots. When he tried to shield himself with his bible, he was told that the bible cannot save him. The bible was taken away from him and dashed into a drain. His Walkman cassette player taken away and smashed.

Michael Didi Charles: Several months ago he received a severe blow to his head by a falling beam while in his cell. He suffered severe headaches as a result. He had to be sent to Trinidad for a brain scan. Even with this medical history he was stripped naked, made to lie on the ground. He was kicked, including in his head. He was given two Panadol tablets by Cornwall.

Kennedy Marshall: He is under medical care. Yet he was stripped naked and made to lie face down on the ground. He too was beaten. When he asked for Panadol, he was denied because the RSS officer ordered Cornwall at gunpoint not to give another Panadol to any other prisoner.

Norman Cox: A mentally ill prisoner. He receives psychiatric drugs (modecate) on a monthly basis. He has never been involved in any misdemeanour . Yet stripped naked, and made to lie on the ground, and kicked in his face by an RSS officer, leading to a badly bleeding nose and much trauma.

Alister Richardson: He is terminally ill with cancer. He has had chemotherapy and is currently under medication. He is also a mentally ill prisoner. He has never been involved in any misdemeanour in the prison; a well behaved prisoner. He was stripped naked and made to lie face down in the yard. He was verbally abused. He was traumatized as a result.

Uriah Sabazan: He is mentally ill. Never involved in any misdemeanour in prison. He was stripped naked, made to lie face down in the yard, and beaten.

Anwar Walker: Stripped naked, face on ground, beaten. Good behaviour and productive in prison.

Tony Curtis Thomas: Stripped naked, face on ground, beaten . Never misbehaved in the jail.

Benedict Andrew (Culture): Stripped naked, face on ground and beaten. He is a ‘good behaviour’ prisoner; indeed he is a trusty because he works in the Chief Officer¹s office ­ a post reserved for only trusted prisoners. He was seen with a knife (something not strange for him given the work he does in organising food and drink for the Chief Officer). He was beaten because of possession of that knife.

Humphrey Thomson: Hardworking. A well-known informer for prison officials. Yet they failed to protect him from being stripped naked, and receiving a beating at the hands of the RSS troops.

Vibert Mathew: A remand prisoner housed in the Security Section. One of the RSS troops entered the Security Area and removed him, at gunpoint; placing him in the yard with all other prisoners, forcing him to strip naked and kicking him on his hips and bottom for no reason at all. This is a mature, soft spoken man of exemplary behaviour in the prison. A prison officer saved him from a further beating.

Vincent Joseph: A political prisoner, a member of the Grenada 17. He is a model prisoner, very hardworking and productive in prison. He has never been involved in any of the activities of those few inmates accused of causing disturbances in the prison. Yet he was stripped naked and made to lie face down in the yard.

Andy Mitchell: Another political prisoner and member of the Grenada 17. A model prisoner. He has been in charge of making out the pay sheet for all prisoners for the past 13 years, and doing the canteen accounts, on a regular basis. He too was stripped naked and made to lie face down in the yard.

Cosmos Richardson: Another political prisoner and member of the Grenada 17. A model prisoner and hardworking. He was showering in the Security Section when the RSS troops burst into the prison. One of the RSS troops entered the Security Area and demanded, at gunpoint, that Richardson come out of the shower, go into the prison yard outside the Security Section just as he was, and lie down on the dirty ground. It took a while before various prison officers ‘rescued¹ all three political prisoners from the brutality of the RSS-led troops.

Appendix II

Incomplete list of Grenadian prisoners [20 in each of two batches] ‘deported’ from their country to St Lucia¹s prison, and their current legal status (i.e. ‘remand prisoner’, ‘awaiting trial’ and ‘appellant’. Those not so designated are ‘convicted prisoners’).

1st Group (21st September)

1. Junior Thomas
2. Joie Thomas
3. Stalin Bruno
4. Liston Bubb
5. Sammy Cadet
6. Errol Charles (Awaiting Trial)
7. Kellon Charles
8. Roland Charles (Appellant)
9. Martin Frederick
10. Kyron McFarlane
11. Nathaniel McGillivery (Appellant)
12. David Noel (Appellant)
13. Ricky Noel
14. Kenton Phillip (Appellant)
15. Anthony Rougier
16. Rondel Stewart (Appellant)
17. Kenton St. Bernard
18. Raymond Thomas (Remand)
19. Christopher Noel alias ³Patchee² (Remand)
20. (Name unknown)

2nd Group (26th September)

1. Otis Baptiste
2. Bernard Beggs (Awaiting Trial)
3. Richard Calliste
4. Johnny Francis (Appellant)
5. David Hamilton
6. Keithwana Joseph (Awaiting Trial)
7. Lindon Maitland
8. Devon Mitchell (Appellant)
9. Nicholas Mc Millan
10. Keith Pierre
11. Hayden Phillip
12. John Phillip (Remand)
13. Graham Marshall [NB: They took the wrong ³Marshall² by mistake!]
14. Kimron Roberts (Remand)
15. Glen Samuel (Awaiting Trial)
16. Stephan Sandy
17. Jason Thomas (Appellant)
18. Timothy Thomas
19. Anwar Walker
20. (Name unknown)

Please note that at least fifteen of the forty have dates to appear in Grenada¹s courts with respect to their cases (since they are remand prisoners, awaiting trial or have their appeals forthcoming), but they are now located in another country, outside the jurisdiction of the courts which must hear their matter(s)!

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