Prisoner William Kapris Put to Death Penalty

The most wanted Criminal, William Kapris was killed by Police from Port Moresby.
The convicted Bank Robber, William Kapris who had been on the run for the last ten weeks, was shot death near Doa village in the Central Province, about 45 km north-west of Port Moresby City.
Mr. Kapris accomplice Raphael Walimini, a convicted murderer, was also killed in the shootout, which ended a massive manhunt by police who had offered a reward of  PGK100,000.00 each for the pair.
Five other people, including two women and a Defense Force Soldier, who were travelling with Kapris and Walimini, have been arrested and locked them up at the Boroko Police Cell in Port Moresby.


Assistant Police Commander Jim Andrews told reporters on Monday night that police had gone to Doa village to apprehend the escapees after a tip off.
"After three months of operations till now, we caught up with with him following a tip-off from the public.
As we were moving in to apprehend them, there was an exchange of fire," Andrews told reporters on Monday night.
He added that no police officers were injured in the shootout.
The Port Moresby General Hospital premised was a scene of screaming red and blue lights and loud horns as police convoy, numbering more than twenty vehicles escorted the corpses to the morgue at around 10:00 pm.
As word of the capture and shooting dead of the country's notorious criminal spread throughout the city, the populace outside the hospital premises grew in numbers. Security were step up and only few people were allowed in.
The bodies of Kapris and Walimini were laid out inside the morgue area where police forensics officers quickly moved in and took over. They were soon joined by flashes form reporters cameras.
Bullet wounds were visible in most parts of their bodies, particularly below their knees.
For about an hour, uniformed and media personnel continued in and out of the morgue area, observing and taking photographs of the corpses.
When all the excitement finally subsided and the hospital gates opened, members of the public who had gathered outside moved in.
However, control was again reinforced when police told the people that the hospital ground belonged to the sick. Kapris and Walimini were inside the morgue and there was nothing more to see that night.
According to police, more than thirty royal PNG constabulary personnel were used used in the operation to recapture Kapris who was known in PNG for series of robberies at Bank South Pacific branches.
Kapris and Walimini escaped Port Moresby's Bomana prison on May 14 afters walking out the front gate.
In 2010, the country's most wanted serial bank robber escaped from custody in a Toyota truck after taking a warder hostage. 
He was aided that time by a woman who posing as a lawyer, pulled a gun on guards.
He was arrested a short time later, alone with several jail staff who allegedly assisted his escape.
It was not first time Kapris had escaped PNG's justice system.
Before being captured in 2008, he had been on the run for eight years after escaping police detention while convalescing at Port Moresby General Hospital.

From The National.