Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams says investigators are working on all possible leads to recapture the two prisoners who escaped from the Carrera Island Prison on Independence Day.
Steve McGilvery and Leroy “Redo” Mohammed escaped from the maximum security section of the prison, located off Chaguaramas, as this country celebrated its 53rd anniversary of independence.
McGilvery is serving a sentence of 30 years with hard labour for unlawful killing and Mohammed was sentenced to ten years after he was convicted of robbery with violence, robbery with aggravation and possession of firearms.
Two prisons officers have been suspended pending an internal investigation into the jailbreak.
In an interview yesterday, at the distribution of textbooks and school supplies to underprivileged children at the Beetham Joint Community Centre, Williams said: “The Police Service has a mechanism in place to pursue all information, all leads and we intend to have them recaptured and returned to prison.”
Williams said there had been no sightings of the prisoners.
Officials at the Prison Service said internal investigations were nearly complete into the July 24 prison break while the Police Service was still conducting inquiries.
Three prisoners, armed with guns and a hand grenade, escaped from the Port-of-Spain Prison, killing a police officer on patrol. One of the prisoners, Allan “Scanny” Martin, was shot dead minutes later after he was cornered at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Another escapee, Hassan Atwell, was murdered in East Port-of-Spain a day later, and the third man, Christopher “Monster” Selby, surrendered to police.