Still no trace of prison escapees

It has been nine days and law enforcement officials are yet to recapture the four prisoners who escaped from the holding bay at the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels told Guyana Times that members of the Joint Services have not made any progress in recapturing the men. He, however, said that law enforcement officials were still relentlessly pursuing the men.
The four escapees are Anthony Padmore, 26, of Ogle Street, Beterverwagting, ECD, who was serving a three-year sentence for trafficking in cannabis; Sasenarine Bisnauth of Lot 22 Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), who was charged with armed robbery; 32-year-old Ganesh Dhanraj of Parika Façade, EBE, and Kenraul Perez, 26, of Mabaruma, North West District, Region One (Barima-Waini), who were both charged for the capital offence of murder.
The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) had confirmed that the inmates escaped by jumping over the eastern fence of the facility on the morning of April 20 at approximately 03:46h, but they were missed during roll-call at 06:15h when they did not answer to their names.
It was then that Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) recordings were reviewed and they showed that the men escaped by jumping over the eastern fence.
The ranks on duty at the time of the incident were interrogated and were cooperating fully with Police and prison authorities.
Over the years, several persons had escaped from the Lusignan penitentiary, but they had subsequently been recaptured. In 2017, 35-year-old alleged rapist Dellon Blake, of Kumuni Creek, Demerara River, used his bed sheet and wooden pallets to climb over the fence of the prison.
It was reportedly done in full view of Police ranks who were performing duties in the guard hut tower overlooking the new holding facility. Blake was charged for the rape of an elderly woman.
In 2018, three prisoners escaped by also scaling the fence between towers three and four where security personnel were stationed. The escapees were Travis Evans, 23, a murder accused of C Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown; Sudesh Dyal, 23, of Wales Backdam, West Bank Demerara (WBD), and Dexroy Pollard, 29, also of Wales.
It was reported that the three men had taken a considerable amount of time to make their way through the razor wire.
“It is clear, especially taking into consideration the close proximity of the two towers and the number of ranks deployed in those two towers that those ranks were not alert,” Prisons Director Samuels had stated back then.
Following the fire in 2017 at the Camp Street penitentiary, the Lusignan Prison was used as a holding facility with several holding areas.
However, after a few days at the facility, 13 inmates escaped by digging a hole under the perimeter fence. The hole was about five feet wide and another five feet deep.
Paul Goriah, whose last known address was given as Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was the only person who was not recaptured and he remains on the run to date.