THE SPANISH Town police have launched a search for a man once considered one of the island's most dangerous criminals, Conroy Levy alias 'Phantom,' of a Franklyn Town address in Kingston.
Levy escaped from the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre on Sunday evening. The police listed his age as 40, but Gleaner records showed his age as 33. He lived at York Avenue, Franklyn Town, Kingston 16, prior to his conviction.
Reports are that at about 6.15 p.m. on Sunday, Levy was left in the yard outside his cell. He scaled a perimeter wall and made good his escape. He was serving two life sentences for murder.
Levy is of clear complexion, stout build, about six feet five inches tall and with a deformity of the right little finger.
His first murder conviction was in June 1991. He was sentenced to hang for the gunslaying of Desmond Johnson of Somerset Avenue, Franklyn Town, Kingston 16, who was killed on May 5, 1990.
The following year, he was convicted for the second time of murder. This time it was for the fatal shooting of Phillip Dussard on the early morning of May 18, 1990.
During a robbery in the Waltham Park Road area, Kingston in October, 1990, Levy was shot in the mouth by the police. He was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital under heavy police guard. A policeman testified that he went to the hospital on October 15, 1990 and arrested and charged him with Dussard's murder.
But the Sunday Gleaner reported in January this year that after 11 years in prison, Levy had a desire to find true love and become a husband and father, at least two years before he was due parole.
It was reported that, in March, he would marry a woman with whom he had been corresponding for two years. He said that they had met at a church service, where he and other inmates had gone to minister in song and drama. However, Levy never revealed the woman's identity and the Correctional Service could not confirm his marriage, up to yesterday.
The police are asking anyone knowing Levy's whereabouts to contact Crime Stop at 1-888-9991-4000, 119 or the nearest police station.
