THE LAWYER for murder and kidnap accused Silas Mack intends writing the Commissioner of Prisons to protest the alleged beating of his client at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.

’It is a civil injustice,’ attorney Deke Rohlehr said on Friday.

He said his client’s left eye was blood shot and swollen.

Mack said prison officers jumped on his face, back and groin.

The 33-year-old of Cunupia, is charged with the kidnapping of eight-year-old Leah Lammy and stealing the girl’s cellular phone. It is also alleged he murdered 19-year-old Gail Durity sometime between May 31 and June 2, last year.

Durity’s body was found in a Manzanilla coconut plantation the day after she left her Dass Trace, Enterprise home.

Mack is charged also with kidnapping and murder Devika Lalman. The teenager was found in January in a rice-field off the Southern Main Road in Cunupia. She had been missing for five days.

He also faces charges of kidnapping Sally Lobai, who disappeared on February 11 after she travelled into Chaguanas for a job interview, and Rianna Parag, who went missing last December 16 after a shopping trip in Chaguanas.

He is also jointly charged with a 2008 rape, kidnapping and robbery incident.

After his first appearance in court, Commissioner of Prisons, John Rougier, said plans were in place for keeping Mack safe.