Three escapees from a Caribbean prison accused of killing an American couple were placed in the wrong low-security cells despite being warned they were dangerous and a flight risk, Grenada says. The Prime Minister made the announcement this week.
Ron Mitchell, 30, Trevon Robertson, 23, and Abita Stanislaus, 25, will be placed in separate cells with “secure locking mechanisms,” according to Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell. It was planned.
Mitchell said they were in a “corridor” of a robbed bar, where the suspects ducked and fled from the South St. George police station on Feb. 18. It added that four police officers were arrested.
“It is clear that if the men had been kept in separate locked cells with properly functioning locking mechanisms, they would not have been able to escape and would not have had the opportunity to escape,” the Prime Minister said. Ta. “The investigation concluded that human error, primarily in the form of negligence, played a critical role in the escape.”
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Ralph Hendry and Kathy Blundell are feared dead after their yacht was found abandoned and looted in the Caribbean. (GoFundMe)
The suspects on the run hijacked the yacht of Ralph Hendry and Kathy Blundell during a violent argument that allegedly included the rape of Blundell.
The retired couple from Virginia were allegedly thrown overboard somewhere between Grenada, where the suspects fled, and St. Vincent, where they were eventually recaptured.
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Four police officers have been arrested and charged with a number of offenses under the country’s Police Act, including making false statements, allowing a prisoner to abscond and breaching standing orders, the prime minister said.
“It’s clear that the leadership of the police department is also an issue that requires attention, and the Police Commission has commissioned an investigation into the role of leadership at the time (of the escape),” Mitchell said at a press conference on March 13. said. Press conference.
Police transport fugitive inmate Abita Stanislaus and far-leftist Trevon Robertson, handcuffed together, in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Monday, March 4, 2024. The men had escaped from police custody in Grenada on February 18. He is suspected of hijacking the catamaran on which missing Ralph Hendry and Kathy Blundell were traveling. (AP Photo/Kenton Chance)
Despite the negligence and arrest, Mitchell expressed support for law enforcement, saying, “We cannot afford to disrespect the police.”
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Authorities have yet to find the bodies of Mr. Hendry and Mr. Blundell in the more than 70 miles of water between the two islands.
Last week, the suspects were extradited to Grenada, where they were all charged with two offences. villainous murder, escape from lawful custody, burglary, robbery, and two counts of kidnapping. Stanislaus was also charged with rape.
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Robertson was shot and killed by police on St. Vincent Island during his arrest.
Police say he reached for the officer’s gun. According to searchlight The story was reported in local media, but he denied the story during his court appearance.
“I have never struggled with a police officer,” he reportedly told the judge. “The cop threw me to the ground and just shot me in the leg, okay? I never fight the police, okay?”
Ralph Hendry, 66, and his wife Kathy Blundell, 71, are “presumed dead” after being kidnapped by an escaped prisoner while on the run from authorities on the Caribbean island of Grenada. (Nick Bro)
Investigators from Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are aboard the yacht Simplicity, which they say was hijacked by three escaped convicts with two people on board, and is currently at the coastguard’s Kariaqua base in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It is anchored in Kariaqua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Vincent, Friday, February 23, 2024 Authorities in the Eastern Caribbean say they are searching for two people believed to be U.S. nationals aboard a yacht hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada. (AP Photo/Kenton X. Chance)
Tribute to Ralph Hendry and Cathy Blundell
The beloved couple’s yacht Simplicity was anchored off Grenada’s Grand Anse Beach, a popular tourist destination where the couple sailed, after suspects allegedly took it by force as part of their escape. was.
Their sons, Nick Breaux and Brian Hendry, spoke in previous interviews about the influence their parents had on them and others.
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“Ralph and Kathy lived lives that most of us can only dream of,” they said in a heartfelt message.
They sailed off the east coast of the United States and “made friends with everyone they met, singing, dancing, and laughing with friends and family.”
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“That’s Ralph and Kathy, and that’s how they will be remembered in our hearts,” they said. “We live in a world that is sometimes cruel, but it is also a world of profound beauty, wonder, adventure, love, care, compassion, and faith.
“Our parents encompassed all of those values and more.”
