The cater­er who at­tempt­ed to bring wild meat in­to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) Fut­sal fi­nal in Ju­ly 2018 was the same cater­er re­spon­si­ble for bring­ing in food to the Port-of-Spain Prison days be­fore the 2015 jail­break.

Pris­ons source say they be­lieve the weapons which were used in that jail­break were smug­gled in wwith the food.

Fol­low­ing an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view by Guardian Me­dia with out­go­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Ger­ald Wil­son, of­fi­cers told the Sun­day Guardian that the said cater­er pro­vid­ed food for a high-pro­file pris­on­er who had once been housed at the Port-of-Spain jail.

Dur­ing the dar­ing jail­break on Ju­ly 24, 2015, three pris­on­ers await­ing tri­al on mur­der and oth­er vi­o­lent of­fences es­caped.

The men armed with hand grenades and firearms shot their way to free­dom af­ter burst­ing through the prison’s door on Fred­er­ick Street in Port-of-Spain.

One of the men iden­ti­fied as Al­lan “Scan­ny” Mar­tin was killed by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing a gun bat­tle while hid­ing in a guard booth at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Mar­tin was one of the men charged with the mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul Cool­man.

Dur­ing the dar­ing es­cape po­lice con­sta­ble, Sher­man May­nard was shot and killed by Mar­tin out­side the prison.

The two oth­er pris­on­ers Christo­pher “Mon­ster” Sel­by, 30, and Has­san Atwell,41, who es­caped through the hos­pi­tal com­pound were able to evade po­lice.

But one day lat­er Atwell was found dead in a build­ing at Laven­tille with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Atwell had been await­ing ex­tra­di­tion to the Unit­ed States for the 2005 mur­der of US cit­i­zen Videsh Mo­han. A few days lat­er Sel­by sur­ren­dered to po­lice with his at­tor­ney.

Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Ger­ald Wil­son, who had been in­formed about the pris­ons of­fi­cers find­ings as it re­lates to the smug­gling of weapons in­to the prison with food in 2015, said dur­ing the sit-down in­ter­view last month: “We are still await­ing the con­clu­sion of the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion, so if the of­fi­cers know in 2015 be­cause I too am anx­ious to find out how the weapons came in.

“If these of­fi­cers who told you that, know how they came in, what­ev­er it is...I would like to chat with them and tell the po­lice, and the po­lice can in­ter­view them so they will tell the po­lice that they know so based on that in­for­ma­tion you have giv­en me, to me...now it in­ter­est­ing and I know you may not want to re­veal your source, but if you can con­vince them to speak to some­body anony­mous­ly, I would be hap­py to know how these things came in­to the jail in 2015,” said Wil­son.

Se­nior prison sources told Sun­day Guardian that the cater­er in ques­tion is con­nect­ed to a high pro­file in­mate now at the MSP.

They be­lieve the re­fusal of Su­per­in­ten­dent Wayne Jack­son to al­low wild meat in­to the MSP on the day of the Fut­sal fi­nal led to Jack­son’s death in Oc­to­ber 2018.

Jack­son was ac­cost­ed by two gun­men out­side his Mal­abar home and shot mul­ti­ple times.

Wil­son dur­ing the in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia last month said it could have been a com­bi­na­tion of more than one thing.

“Whether Mr Jack­son’s death was due to the de­nial of food I do not know, but pri­or to that in­ci­dent with the Fut­sal and the fi­nals, there was an is­sue with Mr Jack­son and some­thing else he de­cid­ed he did not want to en­ter­tain and it is sug­gest­ed that may have been the rea­son and not so much the fi­nal of Fut­sal.”

Wil­son went on to ex­plain that Jack­son had re­fused spe­cif­ic food be­ing al­lowed to en­ter the prison dur­ing Eid cel­e­bra­tions pri­or to the Fut­sal fi­nal.

One of the men who were re­spon­si­ble for killing Jack­son, well-placed in­tel­li­gence sources con­firmed to the Sun­day Guardian, was Mar­cus Mar­shall, who was in­car­cer­at­ed for some time and then re­leased.

Mar­shall was found shot dead along the Old Va­len­cia Road on No­vem­ber 19, dressed in Mus­lim garb. He was shot mul­ti­ple times in the head and back.

He was found with both his hands clasped tight­ly to a bag con­tain­ing thou­sands of dol­lars.

They be­lieve that he was si­lenced be­cause he knew too much in re­la­tion to par­tic­u­lar crimes con­nect­ed to a high pro­file in­mate.

Top-rank­ing in­tel­li­gence sources told Guardian Me­dia that Mar­shall was one of the two sus­pects in the shoot­ing of Jack­son.

Doc­u­ments seen by Guardian Me­dia re­vealed that Mar­shall had been close­ly con­nect­ed to a high pro­file in­mate in the MSP.

They say since Mar­shall was re­leased from jail, records in­di­cat­ed that he had vis­it­ed the high-risk in­mate sev­er­al times.

The re­port fur­ther re­vealed that “it seemed that he was ea­ger to do (name called) bid­ding and emerged as a man of busi­ness or an en­forcer for (name called) gang.”

They say Mar­shall vis­it­ed the high pro­file in­mate in Feb­ru­ary and March in 2018 and iden­ti­fied him­self as a friend. Mar­shall gave his ad­dress then as #5 Box­hill Trace, Pel­i­can Ex­ten­sion Mor­vant.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Wil­son said they were still await­ing the out­come of the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to Jack­son’s mur­der.

“We suf­fer from clo­sure most of the time when of­fi­cers die we keep ask­ing ques­tions. Of­fi­cers re­main with anx­i­ety and dis­ap­point­ment and we do not ever get any clo­sure. We are still guess­ing what caused it and who would have done it. It is not a nice feel­ing,” said Wil­son.