Prison Officer Odinga Wain Wickham, who was slain in the line of duty during the July 9th 2017 Camp Street Prison fire and jailbreak, will be buried next week Tuesday , his mother Annette says.
Wickham, who was shot five times, died as a result of haemorrhagic shock and multiple organ damage, his autopsy revealed. He was shot thrice in the stomach, once to his left hand and once in his buttocks.
The 33-year-old Ann’s Grove, East Coast of Demerara resident will be buried in his hometown following a military funeral.
But Wickham’s mother said on Tuesday that she is yet to see or hear from any official of the prison service or the Ministry of Public Security and it was she who had to ask the secretary of Prison Director Gladwin Samuels if her son could be given military burial rites.