Sasenarine Bisnauth, one of the four prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison two Mondays ago has since been recaptured and he is expected to face an additional charge.
Police spokesman Jairam Ramlakhan had confirmed that Bisnauth of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo was apprehended around 20.30hrs last Wednesday in the canefields aback of Beterverwagting Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara.
Bisnauth’s recapture was incident free although he was armed with a cutlass at the time.
Contacted yesterday, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels told Stabroek News that Bisnauth will face an additional charge. He is likely to be charged with escaping from lawful custody.
Samuels explained that Bisnauth’s matter will be heard externally since he is a remanded prison. He said if Bisnauth was a convicted inmate, the matter would have been dealt with departmentally.
“He will face an additional charge and the reason for his matter being external is because he is remanded. If he was convicted, then his matter could have been looked at departmentally. The fact that he is remanded means that his matter will be taken to the court. At the appropriate time that is,” Samuels said.
The three other escapees; Anthony Padmore, 26, of Ogle Street, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara; Kenraul Perez, 26, of Mabaruma, North West District and Ganesh Dhanraj, 32, of Parika Facade, East Bank Essequibo remain on the run.
The quartet had escaped around 3.26am on April 20th by scaling the fence.
The Guyana Prison Service, in a press release, had said that investigations revealed that the escape took place during “heavy rainfall.”
The inmates were only discovered to be missing during a roll call at 6.15 am.
Ranks on duty at the time were questioned and were said to be cooperating with the investigation. “So far, no rank has been found culpable,” the release had added.
Perez and Dhanraj were on remand for murder, while Bisnauth was on remand for robbery and armed robbery and Padmore was serving a three-year sentence for trafficking of cannabis.
Perez is accused of murdering Berbice labourer Tribhowan Singh, whose lifeless body was discovered with stab wounds on a rice farm in February, 2018.
The murder is said to have stemmed from a land dispute. Perez was only charged in relation to the crime in January of this year.
Dhanraj is accused of strangling his 29-year-old wife, Dhanwantie Ram, in April, 2017. He was held days after, despite his efforts to evade the police and was charged with the murder.
In an invited comment, de facto Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan had previously told Stabroek News that lack of vigilance by the officers on duty at the time is likely the cause of the escape.
He had said that it is clear that the officers were not as alert as they should have been and were possibly asleep when the inmates escaped.
Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the three other inmates can contact 911 or the nearest police station.
