Prisoner gets one year jail over escape from court lock-ups

A South Ruimveldt man was sentenced to a one-year prison term after a brief escape from the city magistrates’ courts lock-ups.

Sherwin Trotman, 28, had been a remanded prisoner at the time of the escape, which occurred on September 13, 2013.

According to Prosecutor Michael Grant, Trotman was attending the court in