Latest update December 19th, 2024 3:22 AM
Stabbed prisoner recovering at GPHC
Terry Joseph, the prisoner who was stabbed to his upper chest by another inmate around 13:30 hrs on Thursday, remains hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in a stable condition.
Joseph, 29, of Lot 6 Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara was the same prisoner who was shot by lawmen on a mobile patrol two years ago when he tried to escape from the hospital where he was being treated for malaria.
Terry Joseph
At that time, the father of one, who was a patient in the Male Medical Ward had picked the handcuffs and had tried to jump through a window when the policeman who was guarding him went to a nearby shop to purchase a bottle of water.
Luckily, a police patrol happened to be passing and the ranks spotted Joseph while he was in the process of climbing down from the health institution’s bathroom window. He was shot and readmitted to the ward.
Hospital staffers are now pleading with the Guyana Police Force to pay keen attention to Joseph, given that he tried to escape from the hospital once already.
“We have had a number of prisoners who escaped from this hospital; one of them even grabbed a policeman’s gun and ran away. We even had a rank that discharged rounds behind an escapee in the hospital and I think that is enough drama,” a hospital source said.
Health workers are calling for systems to be put in place so that whenever prisoners are admitted in the wards, no one will be scared.
Meanwhile, Joseph who was stabbed with an ice pick by Joshua Payne during an altercation in the capital offences section on Thursday is being guarded by a prison warder.
Joseph was remanded to prison after he and four men allegedly went out to sea and committed acts of piracy against several boat owners and their crew, on September 8, 2012.
The men allegedly carted off $4M worth of boat equipment. Two were captured after police ranks, acting on information, went to a house in the Waini area, but Joseph and another suspect made good their escape.
However, the duo was later caught after a series of wanted bulletins were issued. Some of the stolen articles were recovered at a house some distance from the building they were caught in.
Joseph’s attacker, this time around, was remanded to prison since December 2012 for killing 42-year-old Kelvin Caines, a gold trader of Lodge Housing Scheme.
Caines was stabbed to death in the vicinity of Stabroek Market on December 19, 2012.
On February 6 last, a City Magistrate deemed that Joshua Payne was unfit to stand trial for the murder and ordered psychiatric care.
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