Prisoner jumps Camp Street jail fence

Jun 28, 2012 News

A manhunt has been launched for a remand prisoner who scaled the fence of the Georgetown Prisons and secured his freedom.
Sherwin Bobb made good his escape just after midday yesterday by scaling the 15-foot fence on the eastern side of the prison compound.

Sherwin Bobb

This is despite the normal presence of armed police ranks around the perimeter of the fortified fence.
“Somebody had to get pay,” a source said.
While prison officials were reluctant to confirm the escape, police sources indicated to this newspaper that they had received word of the incident.
Several attempts to contact Deputy Director of Prisons, Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Welton Trotz were unsuccessful.
However, sources inside the prison told this newspaper that Bobb had just finished seeing a visitor at the front gate of the Camp Street Prison and had returned to his normal holding area near the tailor shop in Guyana’s maximum security penal facility.
No one knows for sure when he actually disappeared, but prison officials received a telephone call from a public spirited person on the outside that “a prisoner just jump the fence.”
This newspaper understands that Bobb sustained cuts to his hands and other body parts from the razor wire at the top of the fence.
He also lost a piece of his clothing which was still hanging from the fence up to late yesterday afternoon as evidence of the escape.
“As soon as dey get word dat de man getaway, dey lock down de prison,” a source told this newspaper.
The escaped prisoner was reportedly seen in Albouystown by a woman who could not help noticing that he was badly cut. She said that she called the authorities but they ignored her.
There are reports that hours later the escaped prisoner was spotted in the West Demerara area, where he reportedly collected his two children who were born in Cayenne.
Up to late last night he was still at large.