Prison Officer Odinga Wain Wickham who was killed on Sunday evening during the unrest at the Camp Street prison was yesterday remembered as a hardworking and kind-hearted person.
“He was a very friendly and kind-hearted person. He believed in hard work to look after his three-year-old daughter and fiancée,” Wickham’s mother, Annette told this newspaper.
Wickham, 33, of Lot 63 Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Sunday evening with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. He had been shot by prison inmates
According to Annette, Wickham had worked at the prison for several years off and on. “He was in the army. He got sick there first and from the army he went to the prison. He also got sick there and was sent home by a doctor and he was home for two long months with a chest infection,” she said.
“After he recovered he went to work at Ogle. He fell sick again and then he
