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Convict brutally stabbed at Camp Street Prison

May 18, 2012 News

 

A Camp Street prisoner on Tuesday was viciously stabbed several times about his body by fellow inmates who accused him of “snitching” during an early morning raid.
Adrian Bishop, 24, who is currently serving a two-year sentence for committing robbery under arms is presently nursing stab wounds to his chest, buttocks, back and head, and has sustained a broken arm.
Reports are that prison officers conducted the raid and discovered a cellular phone in a prisoner’s possession. This prisoner blamed Bishop for the discovery and sought revenge against him.
The victim’s mother, Adriene Bishop, told Kaieteur News yesterday that it was on Tuesday around 11:00 hrs when she received a telephone call from a nurse at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) notifying her that her son was injured.
According to the distraught mother, she rushed down to the hospital where she saw him waiting for medical attention.
She stated that her son had been stabbed to the head, chin, waist, buttocks, back and arm among other places.
“He was bleeding through his nose and had blood on his clothes and his hand. He had two prison officers with him and they were nice to me but my son was waiting for a long time to see the doctor. When he got through they told him to come back in two weeks and that is for his hand. What about his head injuries?” the woman asked.
She told Kaieteur News that her son was in the dining room playing a game of dominoes with other inmates when three prisoners attacked him from behind.
“One man was armed with a crowbar while the other two had jukkers.”
“They call the one in charge ‘Buck’ and when the raid was done they discovered ‘Buck’ had a cellphone in his possession. For some reason he thought my son reported it and he and his gang just start beating and stabbing my son in the presence of everyone, including prison wardens. This isn’t right, I won’t give up my bad for anyone good, and for the prison officers to allow this to happen and watch on is barbaric.”
Adriene Bishop explained that upon investigation she was told that ‘Buck’ had already stabbed three persons in prison in less than two months.
She is fearful that her son is unsafe in prison as his assailants are not being punished for their actions.
“They are just walking in and out and doing what they want in prison and my son is injured. I want justice and I want him to be safe since his time in there is almost up. Right now ‘Buck’ is going to court for murder, too, and we have begun to receive threats from him,” said Adriene.
This newspaper was told that on Wednesday, the inmate apparently telephoned the woman from the Camp Street Prison and admitted he stabbed her son. He also allegedly told her that should his name be called in this matter she and her family would suffer the consequences.
“He called me and threatened me and my family. My daughter does not want to go to classes because she is scared for her life and so am I. This man needs to be punished for what he did and is doing and he is now threatening us.”
Kaieteur News understands that Adrian Bishop suffers from a heart condition and he is presently in a lot of pain.
When his mother visited him at the Prison yesterday he was evidently in pain and his left eye had “shut down”.
“He drinking the pain tablets but complaining that they aren’t helping and his head hurting and they didn’t do any tests to see if he suffering from head injuries or internal bleeding. His left eye swollen so much and it shut down and now his other eye start swelling. He still bleeding from his nose so I know my son needs medical treatment and they need to do it because I don’t want to hear my son die. He has a hole in his heart,” Adriene said.
“They need to do something… keep my son safe, or put the assailants in isolated cells away from people and stop hurting others. He is my son and I want justice for him because if my son had done this to other people they would want justice. And I would want them to have it,” she added.

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