A young man will be serving time behind bars for the next year after admitting to assisting his father with his escape from police custody.
Samuel Domingo, 21, of Rupununi, yesterday told a city court that he helped his father escape police custody because “I could not watch my father be in jail.”
The charge against him stated that on March 27th, 2019, at Katoonarib Village, South Rupununi, he assisted Eustace Domingo, who was at the said time in lawful custody as a suspect in the murder of Reginald Thompson, to escape lawful custody.
After the young farmer pleaded guilty to the charge, Police Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield told Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan that on the day in question Samuel’s father was in the custody of the village Toshao as well as the police for the murder of Thompson. After learning of his father’s arrest, Samuel subsequently armed himself with a knife and forcibly took the man from custody. It was reported that the two men then went into hiding in nearby bushes before fleeing to Boa Vista, Brazil.
The man was eventually arrested and admitted to the allegation while in custody.
With this information and the defendant’s confession to the crime, the magistrate sentenced him to 12 months in prison.
