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Camp Street jailbreak six further remanded

Jan 08, 2009 News

With hands and feet heavily shackled, four of the six high-profile criminals who tried to escape from the Camp Street Prison on December 28, last, were remanded to prison yesterday when they returned to court before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
It is alleged that Dennis Williams, 23, of 35 Waterloo Street, called “Anaconda”; Paul Bagot, 28, of Cato Street, Agricola; Dwayne Archibald, 32, of 450 Bulletwood Street, Linden; and Jermine Savory, 21, of 97 Second Street, Agricola, were all charged jointly with trying to escape from the capital section of the Camp Street Prison on December 28, 2008.
The charge further read that they intended to “set their self to liberty” knowing that they were incarcerated for criminal offences.  They were not required to plead to the indictable offences and were remanded until 15 January, 2009.
The six dangerous inmates, two of whom are suspects in the recent Bartica and Lusignan massacres, had staged a daring jailbreak at the Georgetown Prison just before dawn on December 28, 2008.
This plan was thwarted by the quick response by the prison authorities along with the Joint Services. According to the Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine, five of the prisoners were caught in the prison compound. However, one inmate identified as Sherwin Moses, also called Sherwin Nero, “Pattacake” and “Cattie”, was recaptured in Rasville, near Mandela Avenue.
Nero along with four of his accomplices is on remand for murder. Dennis Williams also called “Anaconda” was recently charged in connection with the Bartica massacre which happened in February of last year. It claimed 12 lives, three of them police officers. He was also fingered in the GUYSUCO payroll heist on November 4, 2008.
Jermine Savoury, called ‘Ja Ja’, was charged in November for the murder of Melissa Payne, who was shot dead during a robbery in Agricola.
The other escapees were identified as Mark Royden Williams, also known as Royden Durant and ‘Smallie’; and Shawn Williams.
Members of the Joint Services who had responded to the jailbreak reportedly fired gunshots, but no one was hurt. Erskine had said that none of the escapees was armed with a handgun.
According to Erskine, the inmates broke out of the Remand Dormitory by prying out a bar from a “cell window”.
After the inmates had climbed through the window, they 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 in the compound. However, Sherwin Moses managed to scale the prison wall.

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