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Bainton Sentenced For Escape
posted (September 15, 2010)
Thirty year old Terry Bainton, one of five prisoners who escaped from Belize Central Prison on April 12 was sentenced to three months today in the #3 Magistrate's Court after he pleaded guilty to escape.

Magistrate Kayla Teck imposed the sentenced.

The others who escaped were Dennis Quilter, Jose Cocom, Jose Melgar and Juan Melendez. They escaped in the early morning hours from their cell in the Tango 10 building by breaching the security system and overpowering the security guard.

Bainton was recaptured three days later when police and prison officers surrounded a house on Zericote Street where he was hiding.

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