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Redman wrote:So technically the man never left prison property?
Rovin wrote:Wilson said the men escaped by cutting through metal bars and removing several ventilation blocks. The men then exited through a foot-wide hole, he said.
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How eight prisoners escape the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca before dawn today is being investigated by a team led by Prisons Commissioner Gerard Wilson.
Muslim prisoners are allowed to leave the holding cell to perform Fajr prayer which is performed before sunrise.
Wilson did not confirm if the men who escaped on Wednesday were practicing Islam. But he said it was “not strange” that Muslims were allowed to participate in Ramadan prayer during the holy month.
Insiders, however, told the Express that the men had claimed to be fasting for Ramadan.
Wilson has also ordered an investigation into whether the daring prison break was a well planned inside job.
In an interview with the Express on Wednesday, Wilson said “I am investigating this right now. I want to know myself how this happened.”
Wilson confirmed that the prisoners were being held in cell number six in the “deep wing” at the Remand Yard.
Preliminary reports stated that checks by the night shift officers revealed that the men were in their cells at around 4.45am.
Wilson said, “But when the 6a.m batch came in the officers checked the cells and realised these men were missing.”
The initial listed released to the public stated that Mikhale Mohammed, Kerry Valentine, Brent Johnson, Atiba Sealy, Olatungi Benbow, Joshua Janet, Kyle Belgrove and Stefon Austin were unaccounted for.
But it was later discovered that Belgrove had been moved to another cell.
Wilson said another prisoner Michael Findley aka Nikey could not be found. “Yes, Kyle was moved to another cell and the officers on duty were not aware so they reported he was missing. However, it remains at eight because Findley cannot be found at this time,” he said.
Wilson said the men escaped by cutting through metal bars and removing several ventilation blocks. The men then exited through a foot-wide hole, he said.
The Express was told that the escapees scaled two walls to get onto the roadway.
A prison source told the Express that the prisons are locked down at night with regular patrols by officers on duty.
A night shift is expected to have 60 officers on duty.
Officers believe the men had been plotting their escape for weeks and used the month of Ramadan to make their move as they were allowed time to prepare for morning prayers.
“The men may have studied the officers’ movements during the past months, like the time they check in on them and how they would cut through the bars. This is not an overnight job,” an officer said.
Questions were also raised about whether the female visitor arrested after a bullet was found hidden in a sneakers she was taking to a relative at Maximum Security Prison on Tuesday.
“Was that a distraction to send all efforts to MSP so these men can make their escape? I don’t know but it can be investigated,” an officer said.
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) issued an All-Points Bulletin for the recapture of the eight men who escaped from the Golden Grove Remand Yard.
The release stated that the TTPS was actively searching for the prisoners, after they were discovered missing around 6:40am, on Wednesday.
A SENTENCE of 12 years has been imposed on an Arima man who assisted a relative in the 2014 abduction of a Brasso Seco family and the subsequent murders of three of its members, including an infant.
Joshua Janet, 28, received the penalty yesterday after admitting his guilt to 21 serious criminal offences, which included three counts of murder, before High Court judge Nalini Singh.]
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