Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Es­caped pris­on­er Az­mon Alexan­der is still at large.Alexan­der, 31, a pris­on­er with 38 pend­ing mat­ters for kid­nap­ping and rob­bery, es­caped from the Ma­yaro Mag­is­trates Court on Fri­day morn­ing and up to late yes­ter­day po­lice were still search­ing for him.North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers are on the look out for the es­caped pris­on­er, whose last known ad­dress was Ack­bar­ali Street, Mal­abar.Po­lice sources said they be­lieve Alexan­der is in hid­ing in Trinidad, as there is no ev­i­dence to sug­gest he has fled the coun­try.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Alexan­der, who has been in cus­tody for ap­prox­i­mate­ly two years await­ing tri­al, ap­peared be­fore se­nior mag­is­trate Gail Gon­za­les and was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody when he es­caped around 10 am.Alexan­der, who was hand­cuffed to an­oth­er pris­on­er at the time, was be­ing es­cort­ed back to the sta­tion to await trans­porta­tion to the prison by two po­lice of­fi­cers, a con­sta­ble and an act­ing cor­po­ral.

As they neared the court en­trance, how­ev­er, Alexan­der man­aged to slip his hand out of the hand­cuffs, pushed down the two of­fi­cers and es­caped.Mafek­ing was cor­doned off af­ter Alexan­der was spot­ted near a riv­er but he man­aged to elude cap­ture.In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.