Six of Guyana's most dangerous inmates recaptured after escape bid
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| Published on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
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By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Prison authorities and other Guyana government officials are investigating the circumstances in which six of the country's most dangerous inmates almost escaped. In fact, one scaled the prison walls in Georgetown over the weekend.
The Kaieteur News reported that the inmates, including two suspects in the recent Bartica and Lusignan massacres, staged a daring jailbreak at the Georgetown Prison just before dawn on Sunday morning, but a quick response by prison authorities and the Joint Services led to their recapture.
Director of Prisons Dale Erskine said that five of the escapees were recaptured in the prison compound. The sixth, identified as murder-accused Sherwin Moses, was recaptured in Rasville, not far from the prison.
The escapees were said to be extremely dangerous and some of them are charged with the country's most daring massacres, which occurred in Bartica and Lusignan and where more than two dozen persons were brutally slaughtered.
According to Erskine, the inmates broke out of the Remand Dormitory by prising out a bar from a cell window.
Kaieteur News reported that, after climbing through the window, the prisoners climbed down a water tank trestle and made their way into the compound. However, an alert prison warder reportedly spotted the prisoners trying to scale the prison fence and raised an alarm.
Erskine added that police, army personnel and other Joint Services ranks responded quickly and captured five of the men. However, Moses managed to scale the prison wall.
A police press release said that a quick response by police ranks resulted in Moses being recaptured in Rasville, Georgetown.
Erskine said that Moses was badly slashed by razor wire while scaling the prison wall.
Sunday's jailbreak is the most serious incident at the Georgetown Prison since five dangerous inmates escaped from the Camp Street penitentiary on February 23, 2002, killing a prison warder and maiming a female rank in the process.
That escape led to an unprecedented crime wave throughout the country during which there were several robberies and murders in the city and its environs. | | | | Reads : 795 | | | |
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