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New Amsterdam prison escapee has day in court
Vijai Seenarine being taken to jail
Vijai Seenarine, 33, of Little India, Skeldon, Corentyne, was on Friday remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the New Amsterdam Magistrate court on a charge of escaping from lawful custody.
Prosecutor Corporal Sherlock King was that on Saturday June 11, last, Seenarine while being incarcerated at the New Amsterdam prison on a charge of carnal knowledge he escaped from the said prison.
He was not required to plead and bail was refused.
Prosecutor King told the court that the matter was of a serious nature and should not be treated lightly in court.
A shackled Seenarine was then remanded to prison until July 29.
Seenarine who had escaped from The New Amsterdam Prison along with three other dangerous prisoners was recaptured around 11:00 hours as he was walking along J.C. Chandisingh Road at Rose Hall, Corentyne, Berbice.
The other escapees are now said to be armed and dangerous. They are Kevin Narine, 32, of No7 Village, West Coast Berbice, who is also known as Ram Sookdial, Long Hair and who was sentenced on June 2, last, to nine years in jail in the Berbice High Court after he was found guilty on a count of robbery under arms.
Rickford La Fleur, 36, called Rickford Williams or Rickford Sabola, Bragga or Rastaman, of Vryheid’s Lust Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara and Smithfield and Canje River.
He was remanded on two charges of murder and two charges of trafficking in narcotics. Vinood Gopaul, 19, of 34 Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Berbice, who was remanded to prison on a charge of murder committed in 2007. This is his second escape from the New Amsterdam penitentiary. He was among 18 prisoners who had escaped in August 2007.
During the night the four escaped it was revealed that only three guards were on duty including two women one of whom was said to be pregnant. .
Since Seenarine recapture he is said to have led ranks to a camp several miles up the Corentyne River.
The ranks also recovered a shotgun believed to be left behind by the three other escapees.
The escapees, it is understood, had raided a camp along the bank of the Corentyne River and relieved the occupants of four shotguns.
Ranks of the Joint Services also conducted a patrol up the Canje River and found a field of about three acres of Marijuana under cultivation with approximately 15,000 marijuana plants ranging in height between two feet and four feet.
The ranks also found an unlicensed revolver in an abandoned camp and two nurseries with about 10,000 seedlings.
The marijuana plants and seedlings were destroyed but no one was arrested.
A Commission of Inquiry has since been set up to examine the circumstances of the escape.
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