THE four Vietnamese national who escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre on Monday are still at large.
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If and when the men are re-captured all they would get is a stern warning since they cannot be charged with escaping legal custody, police said yesterday.
According to police, the four men, Tran Xuan-Tinn, Tran Xuan-Dang, Tran Ven-Gong and Nguyen Ziet-Toan, who escaped from the recently-opened Immigration Detention Centre in Aripo, did not commit any crime and therefore cannot be charged.
The Detention Centre is regarded as just a ’holding bay’, police said, adding that it is not a prison as a result the escapees cannot be described as armed and dangerous.
The four men were being housed at the detention centre to be deported to their native land because they overstayed their welcome in this country.
They were among six men who scaled the barbed-wire fence during the wee hours of Monday morning.
Two were re-captured. One, an Iranian national awaiting extradition, was held just outside the facility entangled in barbed wire, while the other, a Guyanese national, was held in the Rio Claro forest some four hours after the escape.
