‘Septic tank bandit’ among Mazaruni escapees

Jul 03, 2012 News

Mazaruni Prison inmates Carlton Sampson and Sean Hopkinson continued to avoid a police dragnet following their brazen escape on Monday from the penitentiary.
Police sources said that they have received no reports of anyone having spotted the fugitives.
Both men were incarcerated on armed robbery charges at the time of their escape.
Hopkinson, 29, of Blue Berry Hill, Wismar, is the so-called ‘Linden septic tank bandit’ who robbed three Banks DIH salesmen at gunpoint in 2010.
He fled after the robbery but was found hiding in a septic tank. He was serving concurrent three-year sentences for robbery under arms, unlawful possession of firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
Carlton Sampson, 30, is said to be from Craig, East Bank Demerara. A police release also gave his address as Crane Old Road, West Coast Demerara.
In September, 2009, he escaped from the Golden Grove Police Station after assaulting a police constable. At the time, he was a suspect in several armed robberies that were committed on the East Bank of Demerara.
A few days later, Sampson was shot in the left hip by police after being cornered in an abandoned house at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara. He was serving sentences for robbery under arms and escape from lawful custody.
Hopkinson and Sampson escaped from the Mazaruni Prison on Monday after scaling the walls of the penitentiary.
Kaieteur News understands that prisoners were on recreation, playing a game of cricket and when a head count was made at around 13:00 hrs, prison warders realized that the two were missing.
Police ranks from Bartica and prison officers were said to have travelled to the Karrau in search of the fugitives.
Residents have reportedly claimed to have seen a young man wearing a white tee shirt and carrying a knife walking in a trail.
There are suggestions that the poor meals being served to the inmates may have motivated the two to escape.
Three days ago, a prisoner contacted this newspaper claiming that the inmates are being given a daily fare of peas and rice and are being “inhumanely treated” as well.
The prisoner, who said that he was scheduled to escape with the two fugitives, alleged that a prison officer told the three men that the “peas and rice situation will have to continue”.
“That is why them decide to get away. They could no longer deal with that. The food in here is bad enough for anybody to want to escape,” the prisoner said.
The prisoner revealed that the cooks would even serve them milk mixed with flour.
It was also alleged that crops cultivated by prisoners are being sold on Bartica as “pocket money” for some warders.

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