Death Row in­mate Dar­ryl Charles Bis­soon, who es­caped from jail 10 days ago, has ap­peared in court charged with es­cap­ing le­gal cus­tody. Bis­soon, 26 of First Street, San Juan, was charged that be­tween De­cem­ber 23 and De­cem­ber 24, 2012, he, be­ing a pris­on­er de­tained at the Port-of-Spain State Prison and sen­tenced to mur­der, es­caped.

Bis­soon was one of two men con­vict­ed in 2011 for the mur­der of 24-year-old con­struc­tion work­er Collin De­landro in 2005, at Quar­ry Road, San Juan. He was un­rep­re­sent­ed in court yes­ter­day. He said he planned to re­tain a lawyer in time for his next ap­pear­ance on Jan­u­ary 30

The T&T Guardian learned prison of­fi­cials have in­creased se­cu­ri­ty in the wing where Bis­soon would be kept. Min­utes ear­li­er, the se­cu­ri­ty guard charged with har­bour­ing Bis­soon dur­ing his nine short-lived days of free­dom, al­so ap­peared in court.

Khris­ton Ash­by, 27 of Fran­cis Street, Sad­dle Road, San Juan, was charged that on De­cem­ber 29, 2012, at Fran­cis Street, know­ing Bis­soon was guilty of es­cap­ing le­gal cus­tody from prison, did com­mit an act to im­pede the ap­pre­hen­sion of Bis­soon by pro­vid­ing hous­ing and oth­er ameni­ties to Bis­soon.

He was re­mand­ed in cus­tody to reap­pear in court to­mor­row. Ash­by begged the mag­is­trate to un­der­stand that he had not cho­sen to har­bor Bis­soon and in­stead had been threat­ened and fam­i­ly would have been killed. Po­lice of­fi­cers, led by ASP Ajith Per­sad, re­ceived in­struc­tions to charge the men yes­ter­day morn­ing from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.