today where Police will continue to question him about a "spate of criminal activity'' he is suspected of committing during his weekend on the run.

The convicted sex attacker and burglar is not expected to appear in plea court for at least two weeks to answer charges of escaping lawful custody and any other offences Police believe he committed.

"We are still at the interview stage,'' said Sgt. Andrew Boyce, who is in charge of the investigation.

Meanwhile, Social Services Minister the Hon. Quinton Edness last night commended Police for their recapture of Rogers saying: "The Country can now gladly rest at ease over the Christmas holiday.'' "I want to compliment the Police and the Prison officers assigned to them for being able to locate Rogers and recapture him,'' he said. "They did a good bit of work.'' There will probably be high security when Rogers eventually goes to court due to his 1984 escape from Prison Officers' custody.

The 32-year-old carpenter bolted from them as he was being escorted to Magistrates' Court from the Hamilton Police Station.

Sgt. Boyce said Rogers was being "reasonably cooperative'' with Police. He has been held at Hamilton Police Station since his recapture on Monday afternoon.

Rogers escaped last Thursday from the Ferry Reach Prison Farm by climbing through a bathroom window from which he had removed the iron bars.

A team of five police and four prison officers, led by Insp. Coglin Gibbons, conducted the search for Rogers.

Rogers was apprehended in the backyard of a Ferrars Lane home by Det. Cons.

Craig Morfitt and Jerome Laws after a dramatic chase in Pembroke minutes after a man who fitted Rogers description broke into a Rosemont Avenue home and threatened a woman with a knife.

Mr. Edness promised an investigation into how Rogers escaped and whether there was any security lapse would be conducted.

But he did not expect the probe to be concluded before the holiday. He has said: "It might very well lead to disciplinary action.'' Mr. Edness has disclosed that Rogers escaped from an extra-security holding area where he was awaiting being sent back to Casemates maximum security prison for a violation.

But Mr. Edness defended Prison officials allowing Rogers to serve the remainder of his ten year jail sentence at the Prison Farm.

"The method of determining whether prisoners can go to the Prison Farm, I believe is quite good,'' he said. "But you can't always predict human nature.'' Acting Police Commissioner Supt. Wayne Perinchief said at a news conference after Rogers' recapture that he was suspected of committing several offences while on the loose.

"We do know that at least two females were brought into danger because of this man,'' he said.

Rogers, in trouble with the law since he was a child, was jailed in February 1991 after pleading guilty to assault, sexual assault and threatening the life of his girlfriend, deprivation of liberty and burglary.

Rogers was a wanted man in April, 1990 when he managed to elude Police for two weeks before being arrested.

He was caught a day after The Royal Gazette ran his picture on the front page saying Police wanted him in connection with a series of robberies and breaking and enterings that had occurred. Rogers was later jailed for the offences.

There have been no recent major escapes from the Prison Farm. But a prisons shake-up came after convicted killer Troy Shorter escaped from Casemates in July 1991 by bus after clambering over two 20 foot walls.

He was on the run until December 2 when Police found him at his mother's house.

A damning report on Shorter's escape highlighted "areas of negligence'' in the prisons and some officers were demoted.

Just days after the report, another Casemates prisoner escaped, Toronto (Mackie) Darrell while being escorted to a faked dentist's appointment in Hamilton.

Former Prisons Commissioner Mr. Milton Pringle resigned after being hit with a further blow -- the killing of a tourist by a Casemates prisoner on a work release programme.

Before that, the last major escape was that of convicted rapist Kenneth (Eggs) Smith in 1985 along with three other inmates. They were later caught.