Police offering $10m reward for info on four escapees
The Guyana Police Force is offering a $10M reward for any information leading to the arrest of the four remaining prisoners who fled from the Georgetown and Lusignan Prison and are yet to be apprehended.
This development comes one month after the Camp Street jailbreak which completely flattened the complex.
In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, the police said a reward of $10M is being offered for information leading to the arrest of murder accused Uree Varswyck also known as ‘Malcolm Gordon’, Bartica massacre convict Mark Royden Durant also known as ‘Royden Williams’ and ‘Smallie’, Cobena Stephens called ‘OJ’ and Paul Goriah.
Since July 9 when several fires started by inmates destroyed almost the entire Georgetown Prison, a total of 19 prisoners managed to escape; six during and after the Camp Street fires and 13 from a holding facility at Lusignan on July 24.
Twelve who fled from the Lusignan Prison pasture have since been recaptured. Winston Long, Tishan McKenzie, Odel Roberts, Jamal Forde, Rayon Jones, Jason Howard and Jamal Joseph were nabbed at various locations on the evening of July 24, hours after their escape.
Kendell Skeete was nabbed in an abandoned house in Wisroc Housing Scheme, Wismar, Linden on July 26. Pascal Smith was apprehended in a pit latrine in Kitty on July 28, while Clive Forde was shot dead on July 30 during a confrontation with members of the Joint Services in East Ruimveldt. Kerry Cromwell turned himself over to the police at the Brickdam Station in the company of his mother and Shawn Harris was arrested the following day in the bottom flat of a two-storey house in Mocha.
The thirteen inmates escaped from the facility between 1 am and 2.30 am on July 24 during a heavy downpour, after digging a tunnel that took them under the fence and into the backlands.
Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander, Cornelius Thomas and Desmond James from the group of six who had escaped from the Georgetown prison have since been recaptured. The police had issued wanted bulletins for all the escapees including these four who are wanted for escaping from lawful custody. The force has also made continuous appeals to members of the public, relatives and friends of these inmates to give any relevant information as to their whereabouts so that they can be captured and returned to the prison.
Anyone with information that may lead to the recapture of these escapees, is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers 225-6411, 2258196, 225-2227, 226-1389, 227-2128, 227-1149, 2267065, 699-0869, 600-3019, 699-0867, 669-4606, 6033261 or the nearest police station.
“All information will be treated with strict confidentiality’, the police said.