RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

The fifth prison es­capee, An­tho­ny Seep­er­sad, who was re­cap­tured three days af­ter es­cap­ing from the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca, has plead­ed not guilty to the charge of es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody.

Seep­er­sad would have been charged and brought be­fore mag­is­trate Bramb­hanan Dubay in the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates First Court, ei­ther on the 24th or 25th March, 2022.

Seep­er­sad, 28, was found and de­tained in St James by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force at about 11:10 am on March 23rd. He was ar­rest­ed along with an­oth­er man, be­lieved to be a rel­a­tive.

Seep­er­sad and the oth­er man were tak­en to the Mar­aval Po­lice Sta­tion and sub­se­quent­ly to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion, where the es­capee was charged with es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody.

He plead­ed not guilty dur­ing his court ap­pear­ance and is due to reap­pear on April 21st.

Seep­er­sad, along with four oth­er pris­on­ers, es­caped the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca on March 20th.

Kurien Dou­glas, 25, and Shaquille Dray­ton, 30, were re­cap­tured at about 7:45 pm and 8:20 pm in Dins­ley and Tacarigua, re­spec­tive­ly, on March 21st.

Theon Thomas, 23, was re­cap­tured at about 4:30 pm on March 21st at a house in Mt D’Or, while Kevin Jagdeo, 32, was re­cap­tured in the Trinci­ty area short­ly af­ter his es­cape on March 23rd.

The oth­er four re­cap­tured pris­on­ers ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Bramb­hanan Dubay in the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates First Court on March 22nd, where they pled guilty to the charge of es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody.

All four men were each sen­tenced to two years and eight months of hard labour, in ad­di­tion to the time they cur­rent­ly are serv­ing.

The five pris­on­ers es­caped from the Gold­en Grove Prison at about 10:30 pm on March 20th.  They had climbed through a space they had pried open through the gal­va­nize roof­ing of a dor­mi­to­ry cell.

Prison of­fi­cers had heard a noise from the south­ern side of the dor­mi­to­ry, and up­on check­ing saw that the BRC wire had been cut and the gal­va­nize raised, and dis­cov­ered five of the ten in­mates housed in the cell were miss­ing.