The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ryan Singh, 27 years of Campbell Street, Williamsburg, Corentyne, who was a prisoner in the lock-ups at the Rose Hall Police Outpost, and was found hanging in his cell at about 1530h today.
Police say that investigations revealed that at about 1130h today Singh was arrested by members of the Rose Hall Town Council following a report of larceny of a bicycle from a teenager earlier. The police say that he was found in possession of the bicycle and was handed over to the police at the Rose Hall Police Outpost where he was taken into custody and placed in the lock-ups.
During a visit to the lock-ups by the police at 1530h, Singh, who was the only prisoner in the lock-ups, was found hanging from the inner grilled ceiling by his jersey, which the police said he had stripped into pieces and joined together, and tied around his neck.
He was pronounced DOA at the Port Mourant Hospital, police said.
