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Manhunt continues, warder released from custody

Feb 25, 2011 News

Prison officials and Joint Services are still hunting, Eddie Williams, 18, of 37 Back Street, Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara, who was on remand at the Georgetown Prison and managed to escape without notice.
The prison warder who was placed in police custody at the Brickdam Station after Williams escaped on the eve of Republic Day was release yesterday.
No wanted bulletin has yet been issued for the fugitive. And according to sources at the prison, the escapee who was a remanded prisoner was fetching sand from outside of the Camp Street prison. However, the prisoner took advantage of the staff shortage and while returning outside to fetch sand he decided to make his escape unnoticed.
The source said that when prison authorities carried out a tally of inmates around 18:00 hours, Williams was not there.
Questions are being raised as to why a murder accused was allowed to work in the prison, since it is stipulated in the Prison Act, Chapter 11:01 of the Laws of Guyana that a remand prisoner is not to work within the prison.
“The prison warders got to work a 12-hour shift, and when you have to work so long any officer could slip up especially when there is not enough warders to keep watch,” one prison warder said.
Police recently captured Eddie Williams. The teenager is accused of stabbing a man to death last November and he was charged with murder at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.
It is alleged that on November 30, last, at Ruimzeight, Williams murdered Jermaine Jones.
It was reported that Jones, 29, of Diamond Housing Scheme, was knifed to death during an early morning row.

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