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Apr 04, 2013 News
Shortly after 09:00 hours yesterday, officials at the Georgetown Prisons had to go into swift action after Colin Jones, a prisoner, had again set fire to a mattress in his cell.
Jones, now 23 years old, has been in solitary confinement from the time he was remanded and has already been sentenced for some crimes he admitted to committing.
This publication was told that prisoners in nearby cells smelled smoke and pretty soon they saw smoke billowing from Jones’s cell. The cell is located in the newly constructed section known as the Strong Cell.
An alarm was raised and prison officers immediately responded as they removed the burning mattress. By this time they had also summoned the special unit that remains on standby for any eventuality at the prisons. Not long after armed police ranks raced to the prisons and surrounded the facility.
A heavily shacked Jones was removed from the cell. One source at the prison said that Jones wanted to attract the attention of the guards so he took a lighter to the mattress.
However, his colleagues say that even in solitary confinement the restraints are not removed. They say that he is regarded as dangerous and as a result he is hardly ever let out of his cell.
Colin Jones, called “Bunny”, was slapped with charges ranging from murder to arson to possession of guns and ammunition to escaping from lawful custody and cultivating cannabis.
Jones also reportedly confessed to recently killing two of his accomplices, Kurt Thierens and Adriano Tracey by shooting them to death and burying the bodies in shallow graves at Linden. These bodies were later exhumed.
It is alleged that Jones, between November 10 and November 26, 2010 at Amelia’s Ward, murdered Adriano Tracey.
Another charge stated that between the same dates, he murdered Kurt Thierens also called “Glasses”. It is further alleged that on November 25, at Amelia’s Ward, Linden, he discharged a loaded firearm at police officer Leslie Corlette. To that charge Jones pleaded guilty.
Further, Jones pleaded guilty to a charge stating that on November 26, he knowingly cultivated cannabis, a prohibited plant.
He also pleaded guilty to having in his possession 691 rounds of 7.62 x 3.9 ammunition, and to having in his possession three AK-47 rifles.
He has since been sentenced to four years in jail for the marijuana charge. This is not the first time that he has set a mattress on fire. Now other prisoners are at a loss to explain how he came by an incendiary device in a cell that he shares with no one.
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