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Preliminary inquiry continues into prisoner’s death

Oct 17, 2009 News

One year after the Director of Public Prosecutions had signaled for two senior prison officers to be charged with manslaughter for the death of prison inmate Edwin Niles, the preliminary inquiry is continuing today before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Yesterday, two police officers gave evidence in chief about the incident. Niles’s mother, Brenda Nurse, gave her evidence on Monday last and was scheduled to be reexamined yesterday.
However the matter was adjourned and she expected to be reexamined on Wednesday. On Monday last Niles’s mother gave her evidence-in-chief about her knowledge of the murder. She was crossed examined by attorney at law Hukumchand.
Attorney at law Raphael Trotman is representing the family. Over the past months, a number of police officials along with prison officials have testified. The two prison superintendents, Kurt Corbin, 30, and Gladwin Samuels, 26, were accused of killing Edwin Niles on July 11, 2008. The two were granted $500,000 bail by the magistrate.
In a report to the DPP, police investigators had recommended that four prison officers, including the two senior ranks, be charged with murder in connection with Niles’s death. The investigators had concluded that the inmate succumbed after being tortured.
No army ranks were implicated in the investigation, although statements by police and prison sources allege that GDF personnel were present when Niles was interrogated.
The statement had stated that Niles had alleged that another prisoner, who often worked at Camp Ayanganna, was to have smuggled the ammunition into the Georgetown Prison.
Niles, who was incarcerated on a marijuana possession charge, was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on July 3, 2008 with a broken arm and second and third degree burns to his shoulders, back and buttocks. He succumbed on July 11.
An autopsy revealed that he died from a clot in the lungs due to the burns about the back. It is alleged that Niles was beaten and scalded with hot water while being interrogated at the Georgetown Prison in connection with the ammunition on his person.

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