MANAMA: Attorney-General at the Northern Governorate’s Prosecution Hussain Al Buali said that the Public Prosecution had completed its investigation into the case of the escape of two inmates from Jaw prison, in which twelve suspects were involved.
He said eight suspects had been arrested and warrants have been issued to arrest the remaining four.
Details of the case reveal that the first suspect moved from his cell to the second suspect’s through the air conditioning slot, cut the metal bars with a chainsaw they had stolen from one of the workers and went out of the cell.
Once out of the cell, they climbed the prison’s wall and joined the third suspect who had been waiting for them with the fourth suspect in a boat. They sailed aboard the board, and then took a car driven by the ninth suspect.
The fifth suspect prepared the money and weapons needed for the escape and gave them to the third.
The security forces arrested the escaping convicts while hiding in the house of the 11th suspect and seized weapons them and bullets there.
The Public Prosecution charged the first two suspects with escaping from prison, while the third, fourth fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were accused of possessing weapons illegally. The tenth and eleventh were accused of helping the convicts to run away from prison, while the twelfth was accused of not reporting the case to authorities.
The Public Prosecution referred the defendants to the court based on their confessions, the witnesses’ testimonies and the report of the Forensic Laboratory which proved the validity of weapons and ammunition seized.
It remanded eight suspects in custody pending their trial and issued arrest warrants against the remaining four.
They will stand trial at the fourth High Criminal Court on May 28, 2014.