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Shane Su­perville

On Ju­ly 20, 2025, Guardian Me­dia re­vis­it­ed the 2015 Port of Spain prison break, seek­ing an­swers in­to the es­cape that shocked the na­tion and the crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion that re­mains un­re­solved ten years lat­er. This re­port ex­am­ines the events of that day and the en­dur­ing im­pact on those in­volved.

Ex­plo­sions were heard from be­hind the prison walls, and in a mat­ter of mo­ments, the or­di­nary be­came the unimag­in­able. Three in­mates—Al­lan “Scan­ny” Mar­tin, Has­san Atwell, and Christo­pher “Mon­ster” Sel­by—armed with two pis­tols and a hand grenade, over­pow­ered prison staff and es­caped.