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Jul 06, 2008 News
Director of Prisons Dale Erskine says that an investigation is underway to ascertain how inmate Edwin Niles, who was allegedly found with seven rounds of ammunition on his person, ended up with a broken arm and burns to his body.
Erskine told Kaieteur News yesterday that a report on the matter should be ready by Monday.
Meanwhile, the Joint Services are also conducting a separate investigation into Thursday’s ammunition find.
Niles’s relatives have alleged that he was beaten with a stick and scalded with hot water while being interrogated. Kaieteur News understands that the inmate has been incarcerated for three years and was due to be released in September.
“Some of the prison warders said that he was trustworthy and that was why he was allowed out of the prison,” a relative said.
A statement from the GPHC said that Niles was bought to the GPHC Accident and Emergency Unit, at around 21:51hrs on Thursday, with injuries to the body and burns to the back. The statement suggested that he was beaten by other inmates.
According to a Police official, Niles arrived at the Brickdam Police Station with the injuries, and was subsequently taken to the hospital.
It is alleged that, on Thursday, Niles and other inmates were taken to the GDF Camp Ayanganna base to weed the compound.
When they returned, prison warders searched the inmates and found the ammunition in one of Niles’s pockets.
The investigators were told that Niles had returned to the prison wearing another pair of trousers.
Kaieteur News was told that Niles alleged that someone gave him the trousers with the ammunition inside while he was in the Camp Ayanganna compound.
However, he failed to identify the person who allegedly gave him the trousers.
Prison officials say that investigators are looking at the possibility that they might have unearthed a plot by some inmates to break out of the prison.
Erskine said that security has consequently been further tightened at the penitentiary.
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