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Dec 29, 2008 News

Another Camp Street jailbreak…

– accused in Lusignan massacre, Bartica slaughter and GuySuCo payroll heist among escapees

Six dangerous inmates, including two suspects in the recent Bartica and Lusignan massacres, staged a daring jailbreak at the Georgetown Prison just before dawn yesterday, but 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, also called Sherwin Nero, ‘Pattacake’, and ‘Cattie’, was recaptured on Mandela Avenue.
Moses and four of the other escapees were on remand for murder.
The other escapees were identified as Dennis Williams, called ‘Anaconda’; Mark Royden Williams, also known as Royden Durant and ‘Smallie’; Shawn Williams, Paul Bagot and Wayne Archibald
Dennis Williams was recently charged in connection with the Bartica massacre, and also for armed robbery in connection with the GuySuCo payroll heist.
Mark Williams, of Uitvlugt Estate Road, was charged in connection with the Lusignan massacre. Jermaine Savoury, called ‘Ja Ja’, was charged in November for the murder of Melissa Payne, who was shot dead during a robbery in Agricola.
Sherwin Moses was charged, along with now-dead fugitives Rondel ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and Cecil Simeon Rambarran, called ‘Uncle Willie’ and ‘Magic’ or ‘Limpy’, and others with the murder of Ivor Williams, a 24-year-old soldier who was shot dead in the East Coast Demerara village of Buxton in January.
Nero, 22, of Lot 74 Dennis Street, Sophia, was also charged with the August 30, 2007 murder of mango trader Kumar Singh, called ‘Mango Man.’
Joint Services ranks who responded to the jailbreak reportedly fired gunshots, but no one was hurt. Erskine said that none of the escapees was armed.
According to Erskine, the inmates broke out of the Remand Dormitory by prising out a bar from a cell window.
Kaieteur News understands 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, Sherwin Moses managed to scale the prison wall.
A police press release said that 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.
The police release said that he was treated at the GPHC, and is presently in police custody.
The Director of Prisons was in high praise of the Joint Services’ response.
“The response of the Joint Services was extremely commendable, as well as the alertness of the men (prison ranks) in the compound.”
Kaieteur News was told that all the inmates were confined to their cells yesterday, and repairs were being conducted to the damaged cell window in the Remand Dormitory.
Yesterday’s jailbreak is the most serous 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.
Last August, officials foiled a jailbreak plot at the Camp Street jail after nabbing an inmate with a .38 revolver.
Prison authorities also recently thwarted an attempted jailbreak at the New Amsterdam Prison.

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