Several persons at the St Thomas infirmary watched in amazement and disgust as a 58-year-old inmate reportedly stabbed himself to death on Wednesday.

Trevor Silvera died at the institution despite a rush by personnel there to save him from himself.

The Morant Bay police reported that about 2 p.m., other inmates witnesses Silvera using a knife to inflict multiple wounds to his chest.

The inmates raised an alarm but personnel at the institution reportedly thought about their own safety and therefore summoned the police.

Before they arrived, however, Silvera had already died.

"A one a di wickedest ting mi eva si, di man use di knife and stab up himself ... . Mi all get nightmare bout it last night," one worker at the infirmary told THE STAR yesterday.

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