Royden Williams on the night he was re-captured
“All information will be treated with the strictest confidentiality,” the statement noted.
The convicted mass murderer escaped while being escorted back from a visit with the aid of heavily armed accomplices in a speedboat.
The escort party was fired upon with AK-47 automatic rifles by men inside boat alongside the Mazaruni River.
The boat and its occupants, including Williams, proceeded upstream, past Itaballi landing, while Prison guards and Police in support undertook pursuit.
Williams was convicted of murders stemming from the Bartica massacre in 2008, when he, along with other gunmen, ambushed and killed twelve (12) persons, including three (3) policemen. Additionally, he had been sentenced to death in September last year over the killing on January 23rd, 2008, of Guyana Defence Force member Corporal Ivor Williams.
Royden Williams had previously escaped from the Camp Street Prison on July 09, 2017 but was recaptured on October 10, 2017, on the Weldaad Public Road, West Coast Berbice.
Royden Williams on the night he was re-captured