Another prisoner has escaped, this time from Ward B2 of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The man, Joel Fraser, called Quincy London, escaped sometime during the wee hours of yesterday morning.
Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine confirmed that the man had escaped but said that he is not yet sure of the circumstances of the getaway.
Fraser was on remand for possession of narcotics and was admitted to the hospital some four days ago for observation for a medical complaint.
Erskine said that the man was supposed to be under guard and investigations will have to be carried out to determine the circumstances of the escape.
Recently there has been a spate of prisoner escapes. The most recent was from the New Amsterdam Hospital on August 25 where a 22-year-old convicted prisoner removed his foot cuffs and successfully fled from the institution. Lyndon Flavius of First Street, Bartica, had reportedly escaped when the prison officer guarding him left the ward to go to the lavatory.
He had also escaped in the early morning hours. Flavius was recaptured by a mobile patrol on a New Amsterdam Street several days after.
Prior to this getaway four prisoners, including two murder accused had managed to escape custody even though they were handcuffed or under security watch.
Of the four, one escaped prison officials, while the others were in police custody when they took off.
Shawn Yhap who was serving a sentence for the larceny of a motor cycle escaped on August 2, while playing steel pan at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri with other inmates of the Camp Street Prison. He was recaptured on the East Coast.
On August 14, moments after he was sentenced to one year in prison, Sherwin Glen, 19, ran out of the Wales Magistrate’s Court and escaped into the nearby cane fields. He was being escorted to the Wales Police Station at the time.
However later that day, he returned to the station in the company of an uncle and was subsequently charged with escaping from lawful custody and sentenced to one year in jail.
On July 30, 20-year-old murder accused Trevor Major escaped from a moving prison van after reportedly picking the lock on the handcuffs he was wearing. He was among several other remand prisoners who were being escorted to the Camp Street prison after making appearances at the Providence Magistrate’s Court.
Then there was the case of multiple murder accused Jermaine `Skinny’ Charles who in June managed to squeeze under the loose floor boards of a cell, shortly after an appearance at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court. He was gunned down by the joint services several weeks later at Kuru Kuru Linden Highway, along with Rondell Fineman Rawlins.
