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Prisoner stabbed by inmate…“My attacker is not mentally ill”
Terry Joseph, the prisoner who was stabbed to his upper chest by another inmate around 13:30 hrs last Thursday said that his attacker is not mentally ill, but dangerous.
Joseph remains hospitalized in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). He was injured by Joshua Payne in the capital offences section.
Terry Joseph
Payne was remanded to prison in December 2012 for killing 42-year-old Kelvin Caines, a gold trader of Lodge Housing Scheme. On February 6, last, a City Magistrate deemed that Payne was unfit to stand trial for the murder and ordered psychiatric care.
Yesterday, during an interview with the injured prisoner, this publication was informed that he (Joseph) had just returned to the Camp Street prison after leaving the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court when he was attacked.
“When I reach back to the prison I didn’t even take off my clothes, I went to the washroom and when I was walking out back, he (Payne) rush up to me and stabbed me with a jooker (ice pick) and I run and he run behind me to continue stabbing,” the injured prisoner recalled.
He added that he ran and stood behind another prisoner to prevent Payne from attacking him. “I was blocking behind my friend and he (Payne) stopped and he was saying, ‘yall aint pay me back my money’ but I don’t owe him.”
The 29-year-old believes that Payne is not mentally ill since according to Joseph, his attacker exhibits normal behavior in the prison. “He does only behave mad when he has to go to court. He doing that to get off from the murder charge against him and everybody knows that.”
“He does gaff with everybody and so,” the injured prisoner noted.
Joseph was remanded to prison after he along with four men, allegedly went out at sea and committed acts of piracy against several boat owners and their crew members, on September 08, 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.
On October 06, 2012, days after Joseph was caught, he was admitted to the GPHC, to receive treatment for malaria. He was shot by ranks of a mobile police patrol minutes after he tried to escape from the hospital.
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