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Is ‘Nasty Man’ cracking? Young offender threatens mayhem

Dec 20, 2009 News

Guyana’s prison system is designed to rehabilitate inmates but the recent utterances of a prisoner send a chilling message of what the system can create.
Some people do make it out with a changed outlook on life and with skills that allow them to reintegrate into society. However, for some Guyana’s penal system is a training ground for young criminals.
There is no better example than the case of Dellon Henry called ‘Nasty Man’.
Henry, who recently turned 18, has been in prison for the past three years, initially charged with murder.
He was part of an Agricola gang that was headed by the now dead Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles, both notorious killers.
Henry was a mere teenager when he was arrested for the murder of Wordsworth Grey. He was also fingered in the slaying of five Kaieteur News pressmen.
Henry has graduated to the main remand facility at the Georgetown Prisons and from all appearances he has resigned himself to being a full time criminal.
Last week, Henry was committed to stand trial in the High Court for buggery committed on another juvenile prisoner.
The thought of having to spend more time in jail awaiting trial in the first place has certainly taken its toll on the young man.
So much appears to be his frustration that he has threatened mayhem if or when he is released from prison.
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court shortly after his most recent committal last week, the words from Henry’s mouth sent shivers down many a spine. Henry was talking to his mother and relatives.
The young man was emotional, telling his mother that the system seems nit to be allowing for his rehabilitation.
“They want to keep me in jail. They don’t think that I could come out and change,” he said before breaking down in tears.
His mother could only tell him that he had his own self to blame.
After calming down with a bottle of water, Henry went into another tirade. The young man spoke about doing things that would make what other gang members did pale in comparison.
“I wouldn’t go fuh no jokey FN (rifle) and no amount of soldier can’t stop me,” he said.
He spoke of his former mentor, ‘Fineman’ Rawlins. “Me big man friend stupid. He go and mek a stinking girl mek he get kill. Instead ah going after de right people, he deh pon stupidness.”
Henry boasted that he could get out of jail at any time and hinted that he could be out before the next General Elections.
“He just losing it,” one onlooker remarked.
One of his former teachers at the Houston Secondary School recalled that he was delinquent youth who eventually dropped out of school.
“He certainly needs all the help he can get in terms of counseling. He is a troubled child and he could get worse, especially in the environment that he’s in,” a former teacher said.
There are many others who are in similar situations like Henry and one shudders to think if they too can be negatively influenced while incarcerated with hardened criminals.

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