Four alleged prison escapees make Court appearance

FOUR of the six men implicated in the foiled escape from Georgetown Prison appeared in Court yesterday.

Before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, Dennis Williams alias ‘Anaconda’, 23, of Lot 89 Waterloo Street, Georgetown, Wayne Archibald, 32, of Lot 450 Bulletwood Street, McKenzie Linden, Jermine Savory, 21, of Lot 97 and Paul Bagot, 28, of Lot 19, also in Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara were jointly charged with breaching the jail.

Two others, on similar charges, Royden Durant and Sherwin Moses also known as Sherwin Nero, did not appear.

Particulars of the indictable offence said it was committed last December 28, when the men, being confined at the Camp Street penitentiary for serious offences, broke a window in the Capital Section with intent to set themselves at liberty.

Of the six, five of them are on murder charges and the sixth is accused of trafficking narcotics.

They were all further remanded until January 15.

Williams is facing 12 counts of unlawful killing as a result of the February 17, 2008, Bartica massacre and Durant is one of the accused in the killings of 11 persons in the January 26, 2008, Lusignan slaughter.

Moses is charged with murdering Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier Ivor Williams and Cove and John businessman Kumar Singh nicknamed ‘Mango Man’ and Savory with the Agricola murder of Melissa Payne.

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