One week after Mazaruni prisoner Christopher Punch escaped from the facility, members of the Joint Services are unable to recapture him but Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels said that every effort is being made to arrest the robbery convict.
In a telephone interview on Sunday, Samuels briefly told Guyana Times that efforts to apprehend the escapee for the past week were unsuccessful.
Still on the run: prison escapee Christopher Punch
“He’s still at large, efforts to recapture him has not yet been successful.”
Samuels, in a previous statement to the media, stated that at about 14:00h on that Saturday, 29-year-old Punch of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), was in the prison compound along with others attending to livestock when he escaped.
In fact, it was at about 16:00h, while the supervising prisoner was assembling the inmates to return to their respective cells that it was discovered that Punch was missing.
Upon this realisation, an alarm was raised and the Guyana Police Force was summoned. Punch was serving four two-year sentences that are expected to run concurrently.
In April of 2019, Punch was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment after he was found guilty of four counts of robbery. These charges detailed that the convicted man stole several motorcycles in Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
