Escaped soldiers Guard goes on trial
Stabroek News
October 4, 2002
The Guyana Defence Force on Tuesday began the trial of a lance corporal accused of breaching army regulations by allowing four soldiers under his guard to escape.
Stabroek News was unable to ascertain how many witnesses testified at the court martial that day, but the hearing has been adjourned to next Tuesday. The rank continues to be under close arrest.
He was detained on September 6, two days after the army discovered that four soldiers who were being held for various offences, went missing. The ranks were supposed to have been confined to a locked cell, but reports indicated that the lance corporal had taken them out of Camp Ayanganna on the night of September 3 after the head count had been taken.
The group, sources told this newspaper, went to a nightspot in South Ruimveldt, where each of the ‘detainees’ excused themselves and vanished.
They were only discovered missing the following day after the 5:30 a.m. flag raising ceremony.Three of the ranks have since returned.