Days af­ter the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared due to a crime syn­di­cate in­volv­ing pris­on­ers, the T&T Prison Ser­vice an­nounced that a pris­on­er es­caped yes­ter­day.

A me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day re­port­ed that Abra­ham Brig­gs who is kept at Gold­en Grove Prison, es­caped while work­ing at the Youth Train­ing Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (YTRC). Brig­gs was called a “star con­vict”, mean­ing he is serv­ing his first sen­tence.

The re­lease said an alarm was raised, and of­fi­cers at­tached to the Emer­gency Re­sponse Unit re­spond­ed along with of­fi­cers of the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion.