Four of the six high-profile prisoners who attempted to escape from the Camp Street prison on December 28 with one making it as far as Rasville were yesterday read the charge of breach of the prison when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
Dennis Williams, Dwayne Archibald, Jermaine Savory and Paul Bagot were not required to plead to the charge due to the absence of Mark Roberts and Sherwin Nero, the other two co-accused, who were at the Sparendaam Court at the time for other matters against them.
It is alleged that on December 28, the six accused broke a window at the Camp Street Prison with the intention of setting themselves free.
From all indications the men sawed a hole in the wall over a period of time. “They had to put back the boards they sawed out during the night so the prison officer wouldn’t see the hole in the day,” one source said.
The police had said that the six accused were on murder and narcotics charges. Five of the escapees were recaptured in the compound while Moses successfully got over the wall and was held in Rasville around two hours later.
Nero was charged with the murder of Guyana Defence Force soldier Ivor Williams and Cove and John resident Kumar Singh. He also reportedly had links to the now dead Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins.
Williams, known as `Anaconda’, was charged in November last with 12 counts of murder stemming from the February 17, 2008 Bartica massacre and Jermaine Savory was charged with the Agricola murder of Melissa Payne.
They are to return to court on January 15.