Freed driver says escapees spared him because of infant son

Some of the bruises on Matthew Shivtahal’s right leg.

Taxi driver Matthew Shivtahal, who says he was abducted by four of the men who broke out of the Camp Street jail on Sunday, yesterday credited his one-year-old son as the reason why the men spared his life.

Speaking to Stabroek News from his home, Shivtahal, 22, who had bruises about his body and swollen feet after what he related to be almost a day-long walk, said that he did not have words to explain how it felt to be alive or to describe what he had gone through.

“It is [an] overwhelming joy to be alive. Honestly to go through what I went through and come out alive is just God grace,” he said in a soft tone of voice.

Shivtahal had been reported missing on Sunday afternoon after