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Prison escapee jailed
Jailed: Ravindra Samaroo
Recaptured prison escapee, Ravindra Samaroo, called ‘Ravi’, 23, of Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice who had escaped from the New Amsterdam prison on August 12, last, was on Wednesday sentenced to 22 months in jail by Magistrate Shurdel Isaacs-Marcus.
The man had appeared before her in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court on a charge of escaping from lawful custody. He pleaded guilty.
He was also jailed for the same number of months on another charge of robbery under arms for which he was incarcerated when he escaped. He pleaded guilty to that charge also.
Samaroo and fellow inmate, Lennox Patterson, 26, of 369 Sisters Village, East Bank, Berbice had escaped from the New Amsterdam prison around 20:20 hrs on the night in question. Samaroo was recaptured one day after in a bushy area not too far away.
On the night of the escape the two prisoners were occupying adjoining cells 38 and 39. The men reportedly knocked out a single 7-ft. board from the wooden walls. They then squeezed their way out of their cells and using bed sheets, climbed down the prison walls before scaling the prison fence and making good their escape.
Patterson who is still at large was recently charged with possession of arms and ammunition and arm robbery committed on the A. Ali and Son Supermarket in New Amsterdam. He was found with a gun and live rounds after that incident.
Samaroo was also charged with the offence of robbery under arms which was committed on December 13, last year at Heathburn, East Bank Berbice.
He was accused of robbing Deodat Dowhan, a taxi driver of the Tripple S Taxi Service of a cell phone and a sum of money. The matter was reported and Samaroo was subsequently arrested.
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