Convicted murderer attempts suicide

Jul 26, 2014 News

– says abusive treatment in the prison made him “very desperate to die”

An inmate of the Camp Street Prison is currently receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he attempted suicide by overdosing on pills.

Christopher Anderson

The patient, Christopher Anderson, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 2013, after he was found guilty of murdering his uncle in 2009.
Anderson, 58, claims that the daily physical and verbal abuse inflicted upon him by prison inmates, led to him contemplating suicide.
He said that the medical staff at the prison would give him tablets to treat a known illness of his, but explained that the dosage he received was not enough to take his life.
Anderson said that he ‘lied to the prison’s medical staff’ about another illness, and would fake “black-outs” and “pains” to accumulate more tablets for his suicide attempt.
He said that about three weeks ago, he saved ‘over 50’ tablets and drank them all at once, in an effort to take his life.
He expressed that he was ‘very desperate to die’.
Anderson, who had previously identified himself in court as a legal, social and industrial counselor, claims that his maltreatment in prison stems from his refusal to be influenced by the ‘criminal transactions’ he claims are occurring in the Camp Street Prison.
“I don’t involve myself in any criminal transactions, like selling cigarettes and using phones like the others, that’s why they mistreat and abuse me; they make my life very difficult,” Anderson remarked.
He said, “When youngsters come in the prison, I try to lure them away from the bad ones and teach them what is right and how to change their life, but the others don’t like that.”