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July year in review : Escaped prisoner Alvone Maybury taunts prison officials on Facebook page

Escaped prisoner Alvone Maybury makes a court appearance following his day-time escape. This time prison officers are taking no chances

Fugitive Alvone Maybury made international headlines in mid-July after escaping from two prison officers and then updating his Facebook page to boast about his whereabouts.Maybury, 24, escaped custody on the morning of July 13 as prison guards led him away from Magistrates' Court where he was charged with three gun-related offences.Witnesses watched as he ran along Victoria Street in orange prison garb, with his hands cuffed in front of him.Within hours he told friends he was relaxing, playing on his PlayStation and watching TV.He even bragged to local media about having his freedom, telling The Royal Gazette that he managed to get his handcuffs off.“I'm free all the way,” he said.“The people up there [in prison] are trying to make me go crazy and that's why I did what I did. The way they run it is sh*t. They don't care about helping no one. It's all about the money for them.”An Island-wide hunt began for Maybury and a 25-strong task force was set up to look for him.Police received reports of numerous sightings of the father-of-one, who taunted police by allegedly visiting fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken.The stunt made headlines around the world, including North America, Africa, Australia, Canada, Honduras, India and Malaysia, with some dubbing Maybury the ‘Facebook fugitive'.During his time on the run local media learnt about Maybury's rough childhood, which some claim led him down the wrong path.His mother died when he was a small child and he had a poor relationship with his father who died when he was 16.Maybury spent time in foster care and was sent to a governMayburyment-run facility for troubled youth, known as Observatory Cottage.As Maybury's first week on the run came to a close, his Facebook posts dwindled and he wrote on July 16 urging people to stop claiming they saw him when they didn't.He continued to complain about his treatment at Westgate Correctional Facility and said: “You need to go up the jail [and] go around [and] ask all the n*ggas who are doin' time how they feel about how the jail is being ran [and] then you would see why I don't want to go back.”In the House of Assembly Shadow Attorney General Trevor Moniz criticised the prison officers on guard when Maybury escaped.“In my younger days, if I had my running shoes on, I could do a little bit better than the prison officers did. I think they made it as far as the corner [of Parliament Street],” the MP said.Despite contemplating his own surrender on his web page Maybury was still at large on July 19. His Facebook page, however, had become private and no more comments were on public display.His son's grandmother, Leasser Swan, made a public appeal for Maybury to come forward, days after police broke down the door of her Pembroke home in search of him.“He needs to do it for his safety and for my grandson to have a daddy. I want him to listen to me, to come to grips that there is nowhere to run, no matter where he goes. His pictures are worldwide.”On July 27, after nearly two weeks on the run, Maybury was caught hiding in a garden shed with another man and woman on the Glebe Road in Pembroke.An eyewitness to the capture said Maybury hadn't done anything to change his appearance and still had braids in his hair and a distinctive dollar sign tattoo under his right eye.“It's weird. It is surreal. He wasn't agitated or anything he was just fine,” the witness said.