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Prisoner escapes from GPHC

Apr 22, 2010 News

Despite being under police guard, a prisoner who was admitted with gunshot wounds to his back and abdomen managed to make good his escape from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday.
The prisoner whose name was given as Nazim Umroa, of Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara, grabbed his freedom around midday after requesting to go to the washroom.
Umroa was shot by the police last weekend and was a patient at the hospital with several pellets in his body.
According to reports, the prisoner kept frustrating ranks guarding him by repeatedly requesting to go to the washroom. It is believed that this was part of his plan to escape.
Kaieteur News understands that any rank guarding a prisoner in the hospital is supposed to accompany the prisoner at least to the door of the lavatory, since the handcuffs would have been taken off.
Yesterday, Umroa made a similar request and was allowed to go unattended to the washroom while the rank guarding him stood on the stairs.
When the rank thought that Umroa was finished with the washroom and went to check his bed, to his surprise he only discovered the handcuffs.
Sources at the hospital said that they saw the ranks frantically combing the hospital compound but they did not realize that the prisoner had escaped until an alarm was raised.
The police rank has since been placed under close arrest while a manhunt has been launched to recapture Umroa.

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