Mazaruni Prison escapee recaptured

– placed in quarantine before charges are instituted

Almost two months after escaping from the Mazaruni Prison, Christopher Punch was recaptured on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at Norton and John Streets, Georgetown by members of the Guyana Police Force who were on patrol.

Punch escaped on February 28 while attending to animals on the farms at Mazaruni Prison, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
Punch was sentenced to serve four two-year sentences after he was slapped with four counts of “larceny of motorcycle”.
He was also sentenced to one year in prison on one count of attempted larceny. The one-year sentence is running concurrently with one of the two-year sentences.
On Tuesday around 04:00h, he was seen at the corner of Norton and John Streets and without hesitation the Police arrested him and subsequently handed him over to prison authorities.
In a release issued by the Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, charges will be instituted departmentally as soon as the prisoner is reviewed and cleared by the medical department of COVID-19 infection, after being isolated for 14 days from the general population.