CONVICTED murderer Nandalall Rooplall, called ‘Daddy Killer’, had five more years added to his jail sentence after he confessed to trafficking 96.5 grams of marijuana while being an inmate at the New Amsterdam Prison.Before New Amsterdam Magistrate Alex Moore, Police Corporal Winston Poliah, prosecuting, said the discovery of the illegal drug was made by Prison Officer Hutson, who observed the convict acting in a suspicious manner and carried out a search on his person, unearthing a black plastic parcel concealed in his pants waist.

The police were summoned and the parcel, when opened, was found to contain leaves, seeds, and stems suspected to be portions of the cannabis sativa plant.

In July 2008, the convict Rooplall, then aged 20, had fatally flogged his father, Sonalall, with a piece of wood. The senior Rooplall, a carpenter/contactor formerly of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, had rebuked his drug-addicted son for his behaviour when the youth became enraged and started to lash his father with a piece of wood.

Rooplall began serving his twelve-year sentence at the overcrowded Camp Street Prison in Georgetown, but was transferred to the New Amsterdam Prison following a fire at that penal institution.