RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

Es­caped pris­on­er and mur­der ac­cused, Nigel Mungroo, has been re­cap­tured and cur­rent­ly is in po­lice cus­tody.

Mungroo is now fac­ing an ad­di­tion­al charge of "Es­cap­ing Le­gal Cus­tody".

Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Den­nis Pul­chan has con­firmed that Mungroo was re­cap­tured and is still in po­lice cus­tody but told Guardian Me­dia he is yet to re­ceive full de­tails of the re­cap­ture.

Com­mis­sion­er Pul­chan al­so praised the "tire­less ef­forts of the Joint Ser­vices and is thank­ing the mem­bers of the pub­lic for their as­sis­tance lead­ing to the re­cap­ture of the es­capee."

Ac­cord­ing to a pre­lim­i­nary po­lice re­port, at about 10:45 pm on Sun­day of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force Area Cen­tral re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that the es­capee was in the Arou­ca dis­trict.

Re­ports are the of­fi­cers went to an ad­dress at Trin­i­ty Street, Arou­ca, where af­ter a brief search, Mungroo was re­cap­tured with the as­sis­tance of the Arou­ca CID.

Mungroo es­caped from the Gold­en Grove Re­mand Yard Prison on Sat­ur­day at about 5 pm. He com­plained of feel­ing un­well and while be­ing es­cort­ed to the Pris­ons In­fir­mary, made a dash for the perime­ter fence in the vicin­i­ty of Wa­ter­loo Road, Arou­ca.

An alarm was im­me­di­ate­ly raised and of­fi­cers as­signed to the Emer­gency Re­sponse Unit re­spond­ed. The Arou­ca Po­lice al­so were con­tact­ed and a search was launched in all the ar­eas sur­round­ing the Prison, as well as in Pe­nal, Mungroo’s last known ad­dress.