A CONVICTED sex offender identified as Navar Edwards called “Ramesh,”of Number Naught Village, Corentyne, Berbice, was found hanging from a sheet which was tied to the door of his cell at the Mazaruni Prison on Wednesday.According to the police, the incident occurred around 15:00hrs on the day in question and Edwards was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bartica Hospital.
Edwards had been serving a five-year sentence for a sexual offence and was admitted to the Mazaruni Prison on April 9, 2015.An investigation is in progress.

Meanwhile, a post- mortem performed by Pathologist Dr.Nehaul Singh on Wednesday on Roy Bovell, of Tabatinga, Lethem, gave the cause of death as asphyxiation due to hanging.

On April 12, 2015, Roy Bovell was found hanging in the lock-ups at the Lethem Police Station where he was in custody in a matter that was under investigation.

The Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the incident.

The police in a press release said at about 08:00hrs on April 12, 2015, the body of Roy Bovell, 36, of Tabatinga, Lethem, who was in custody at the Lethem Police Station, was found hanging from the grill work of the station lock-ups.

It added that the police had earlier visited the lock-ups at 06:15hrs that day and found him alive and well.

Roy Bovell was the only prisoner in the lock-ups at the time and had been arrested at about 19:45hrs on April 11, 2015, at Tabatinga, after he was found in possession of 60 grams of cannabis sativa (marijuana).

In an unrelated incident in which another prisoner was found dead while in custody in the lockups at Parika Police Station on February 25, 2015, an investigation by the OPR was also done.
Police reported that Zaharadeen Razan, 28, of Cornelia Ida, WCD, was found alive and lying on the floor of the lock-ups during a visit to the lock-ups by the police.
Following questioning of other prisoners in the lock-ups, Razan was taken for medical treatment at the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
It was noted that Razan was arrested and taken into custody at about 21:10hrs on February 24, following a report of damage to property that was made against him.

A few years ago another prisoner was found dead in the lockups at the La Grange Police Station, West Bank Demerara.