Lambert Laurette pleaded not guilty to charges of escaping from lawful custody at the Supreme Court on Friday December 5, before Justice N. Judoo.

The current charges stem from Laurette’s escape from Long Island Prison on September 8, according to police. 

After a manhunt brought police and Seychelles People’s Defence Forces (SPDF) personnel to Cerf Island and eventually Mahe, police said that Laurette, after his October 3 surrender to authorities on Mahe, claimed to have been on Praslin.

On October 14, Laurette was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in a revision of a sentence that was passed down by the Magistrates’ Court earlier this year on July 14.  That sentence stemmed from his 1997 escape from Long Island, where he was serving a five-year jail term for the illegal possession of firearms.  He was caught by police in 2001 after more than four years at large.

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