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Victim pardons paralysed prisoner

Aug 07, 2009 News

As if being incarcerated for a sexual offence was not enough to deal with, 17-year-old Vishaul Ramlall while being transported back to the Camp Street Prison was involved in an accident.
A few days after the accident which occurred on the Essequibo Coast, doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital realized that Ramlall was paralysed from the waist down.
Having been told this, the prisoner while being a patient in the hospital’s High Dependency Unit, fell into a state of depression and was even at one point threatening to end his own life.
However, relatives surrounded him and continued to offer their support throughout the ordeal.
When it was time for the paralysed Ramlall to be discharged he was greeted with some relieving news.
According to reports the day the man was told that he was being released from the hospital he was told too that the victim of his crime had decided to pardon him and not pursue with the matter.
Instead of being sent in his condition back to the Camp Street Prison, Ramlall was sent home with his family.
On June 19, last, around 8:00 hours, Ramlall along with several other prisoners was being escorted back to the Supenaam Ferry Stelling, destined for Georgetown when the accident occurred.
The incident occurred at Johanna Cecelia, on the Essequibo Coast.
Sources said that one of the vehicles escorting the prison van somehow slammed into the back of the prison van.
As a result of the sudden impact of the hit all of the prisoners who were in the back of the van were sent flying out of the vehicle.
Ramlall and another prisoner, who is currently on trail for a murder, were severely injured.
The two were at first treated at the Suddie Hospital but were transferred to GPHC.
The other prisoner has since been discharged from the hospital and sent back to Camp Street Prison.

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