FOLLOWING his second appearance at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, prison escapee Samuel Fable, alias John Fable and John Simpson, threw in the towel by pleading guilty to a charge of escaping from lawful custody. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh.

However, shortly after the sentence was imposed Fable, who had been on the run for seven years, filed an appeal challenging the sentence.
Particulars of the offence stated that on February 15, 2007 while being in the lawful custody of Police Corporal 13312 Blair, Fable escaped from his custody.
On the day in question, Fable was among three prisoners who were being transported from Whim Magistrate’s Court when they escaped from the enclosed police vehicle.
About 15:30hrs that day, in the vicinity of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute, Fable allegedly cut the lock from inside the vehicle and jumped out just after it had come off the Canje River Bridge.
On that day, police pursuing Fable, and his accomplices Deryck Busjit and Gavin Balkissoon, were prevented from opening fire on the escapees as students were being dismissed from a nearby primary school.
The men were seen briefly in the nearby Nurseville residential area, east of the Canje Bridge, but they subsequently fled up the Canje Creek.
Police had recovered footwear and clothing along the bank of the Canje River.
Meanwhile, the prisoner, whose addresses were given as Fyrish and Alness Villages on the Corentyne and Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, is also facing a murder charge which stemmed from the unlawful killing of Gangaram Busjit.
On June 21, last Fable, a fugitive living in Suriname, was captured by officers of the Surinamese police SWAT team. The ranks shot Fable in the leg after he had resisted arrest during a confrontation along the Anton Dragtenweg in Paramaribo.
The Guyanese national was being sought by the judicial authorities in Suriname for an alleged armed robbery.