Prisoner recaptured after escape from Camp Street jail
In a brazen daylight jail break, an inmate at the Camp Street jail escaped the facility but was quickly recaptured by Police.
According to reports received, around 11:00h on Sunday, Ruco McIntyre, 27, scaled the barbed-wire fence along the section which faces Bent Street and attempted to make a swift escape.
Guyana Times understands that at the time of the attempt, there was a Sunday morning church service ongoing. The prisoner reportedly capitalised on this and
The Camp Street jail was the scene of several drama-filled moments after a prisoner made an unsuccessful attempt at escape on Sunday morning
fled the jail yard.
Reports indicate that the inmate was slated to make an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts later this week, on allegations that he stole a mobile phone. The man was said to have been remanded to the penitentiary late last year.
A Police rank, said to be a member of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), chased the prisoner, leading to a smooth recapture in the vicinity of D’Urban Street.
While details surrounding how the inmate made his brief escape remain sketchy, the Camp Street penitentiary has had both successful jailbreaks and failed attempts over the past two decades. In the 2002 Mashramani Day jailbreak, five infamous prisoners fled the Camp Street penitentiary, but all were eventually killed. In the post-jailbreak months and years, a number of murders were executed across the country.
After 17 inmates perished in a fire at the jail in March 2016, a Commission of Inquiry report into the circumstances surrounding the deaths had recommended that steps be taken to reduce overcrowding at the more-than-one-century-old facility. Meanwhile, a number of inmates, including several high-profile murder accused, remain at the jail awaiting trial.
