About 1.10 am today, convicted prisoner Allen Thomas, 25 years, of Shea Village, South Rupununi was found in a sitting position and hanging from the inside door handle of the lockups at the Lethem Police Station with his underwear tied around his neck.
The police say that he was rushed to the Lethem Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Thomas had appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson on July 27, 2021, at the Lethem Magistrate’s Court on a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm, where he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment.
He was the only prisoner in the lockups at the time, pending transportation to the Georgetown Prison, the police said.
The body is at the Lethem Hospital awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Investigators from the Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility are conducting investigations into the matter.
This is the latest of a series of hangings in police lockups.
