Six weeks on…Family of slain Camp St warder still awaiting ex gratia payment

Odinga Wain Wickham

One month after Odinga Wain Wickham, the prison warder who was gunned during the July 9 Camp Street jail-break, was laid to rest his family is yet to receive any sort of compensation, according to his mother.

Wickham was killed in the line of duty during the July 9 Camp Street jail-break which saw six dangerous escapees storming out of the prison during a carefully planned escape. He was subsequently laid to rest on July 25th.

Yesterday, when this newspaper contacted Wickham’s mother, she related that she had not heard anything as it relates to compensation for her son who she said died as a hero.