Double murder accused Kapildeo Gangadin, who was recently recaptured after he escaped from the Lusignan Prison, was on Monday sentenced to three years in jail after he admitted to fleeing.
Gangadin, 24, of Annandale, East Coast Demerara, was sentenced at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court by Magistrate Fabayo Azore after he pleaded guilty to escaping from lawful custody.
Gangadin escaped from the quarantine section of the prison last Thursday. He was recaptured on the following morning at a police road block in the vicinity of Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara (WBD). At the time, he was the passenger of a route 32 minibus.
He had been remanded to prison last Wednesday after he was charged with the murders of businessman Ganesh Persaud and Mukesh Mangra.
Persaud was robbed of a gold chain and stabbed in his family’s electronics store at Strathspey, ECD on October 15. Police say Gangadin, who was found in possession of Persaud’s gold chain, admitted to the crime.
Gangadin was also wanted in connection with the 2020 murder of Mangra. The body of Mangra, called ‘Paul’, 27, of Coldingen Squatting Area, ECD was discovered on the evening of January 18, 2020 with multiple stab wounds and lacerations about his body.
