Samuel Fable, who was among three high profile prisoners who escaped from custody back in 2007, has been jailed for one year for the crime‘.
The fugitive appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court on the charge of escaping from lawful custody. He had first appeared before Magistrate Rhondell Weaver and was remanded to jail.
Samuel Fable
In March 2007, Fable who has no fixed place of abode, and two other inmates – Derick Busjit of Black Bush Polder and Gavin Balkisoon of No. 74 Village, Corentyne – were being transported in a van, from the Whim and Springlands Magistrates’ Courts to the New Amsterdam Prisons, when they cut the lock from inside and escaped.
The vehicle was in the vicinity of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute at the time. Fable subsequently fled to Suriname.
At the time he was on remand for the murder of 27-year-old butcher, Gangaram Busjit in November 2006 at Liverpool, Corentyne. Busjit was gunned down in his backyard.
Police also charged Seenarine Deonarine, 49, of Kilmarnock Village, Corentyne and Samuel Fraser called ‘Charlie’ of Liverpool Village, Corentyne for that murder.
Fable was captured in neighbouring Suriname by members of that country’s SWAT team. He was shot in the leg when he resisted arrest during a confrontation along the Anton Dragtenweg in Paramaribo.