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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.