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Ten years ago, gunfire inside the Port-of-Spain prison sent shockwaves through the capital. Three inmates armed with two pistols and a grenade shot their way out of custody in broad daylight—killing a police officer and wounding others in what remains one of the most violent and mysterious prison breaks in Trinidad and Tobago’s history.
The incident led to the deaths of two inmates, Allan “Scanny” Martin and Hassan Atwell, the murder of policeman PC Sherman Maynard and panic that engulfed a city for weeks.
The lone surviving escapee, Christopher “Monster” Selby, surrendered to police days later and has since been returned to the Port-of-Spain Remand Yard where he remains to this day.
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