Two women remanded for allegedly harbouring husband escapees

By ROSELYN ELLISON
THE wives of two men who escaped recently from the Kerevat Prison in East New Britain have been remanded by the court on charges of harbouring.
Police commander Insp Joseph Tabali said Emma Gawi, the wife of Ezekiel Western, and Alice Valvalu, the wife of Valvalu Lane, appeared in the Kokopo District Court on Friday for allegedly harbouring their husbands who had escaped with nine others on April 28.
The two women have been remanded at Kerevat.
Tabali said nine of the 11 escapees had been recaptured.
The two still at large – Valvalu Lane and Henry Penny – have been urged to surrender to police.
Tabali is now appealing to their families to hand them over
and not harbour them, which is illegal.
Lane, 36, from Balada in the Bitapaka local level government of Kokopo, was serving three months and three weeks in jail for robbery.
Penny, 20, from Rigit village in Pomio, was charged with sexual penetration and is awaiting his court case in prison.