NEW MARKET, St Elizabeth — A decomposing body believed to be that of one of eight inmates who escaped during a jailbreak on June 19 at Black River Police Station lock-up was found in bushes near a burned out building in northern St Elizabeth on Monday.

The building, which a police source said is located close to New Market, is believed to have been used as a hideout by some of the escapees.

Head of the St Elizabeth police, Acting Superintendent Coleridge Minto said operations have been ramped up in search of the escapees. On Saturday a second escapee, Richard Brown, was captured in a bar in Bueno Vista near Myersville.

“Our operations continue as we seek to locate the remaining [six] persons who escaped out of the Black River lock-up on June 19. On Monday at about 12 noon a team, led by myself, journeyed to the hills of St Elizabeth where [an] unfinished structure is located. It is believed that men were using this location as a base,” Minto explained.

“We have seen evidence that persons were here. We have seen things such as cellphones that were burnt, spoons, liquor bottles. A body was also located in the nearby bushes. The body is in an advanced decomposed state, therefore we have contacted our forensics scenes of crime [unit] for it to be fully processed,” he added.

He urged the six escapees who remain at large to turn themselves in.

“From the information that we have received it is believed that the body is one of the escapees. We wouldn’t want to name him at this time until we have gotten scientific evidence. We will continue our search for the [others] and we will continue to make an appeal for them to surrender to the police and to turn themselves in with their attorneys,” said Minto.

The jailbreak, which caused widespread debate, resulted in a shake-up of the police’s St Elizabeth Division.

Among the escapees is Anward “Kirkie” Hinds, charged with a quadruple murder.

Hinds has been charged in relation to the murders of four farmers — Archibald Brown, 60; his brother George Brown, 57; Maurice Sanderson, 40; and Ezra Wright, 73 — in the remote community of Claremont in St Elizabeth on May 27, 2015.

At that time police had said he was believed to be the leader of a gang which was a remnant of the infamous Stone Crusher gang. In July 2015 he was found hiding in the ceiling of a house in Hatfield, Manchester, and apprehended.

The other detainees who escaped are Oral Cole, 31, from Comfort Hall, Manchester; Alrick Hutchinson, 38, from Brighton District, St Elizabeth; and Dean Simpson, 34, from Turner Top, St Elizabeth, who were all in custody charged with robbery with aggravation. In addition, Jevaughn Simms, 25, from Copperwood, St James; and Kenneth Stewart, 30, from Beacon Hill, St Catherine, were both being held for murder; and Demar Williams, 29, from Gravel Heights in Spanish Town, St Catherine, who is facing a shooting with intent charge.