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TORTURE
- Teen experiencing hell
in custody
- genital area
soaked with methylated spirits
then set alight by police
In
what may be one of the worst cases of police
brutality, ranks
from the Leonora Police Station have been accused of setting
a 14-year-old boy’s genitals alight while
questioning him about the murder of former Region Three Vice
Chairman, Ramnauth Bisram.
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Genital
area soaked with methylated
spirits then set ()
alight by police
Kaieteur News confirmed the report yesterday after obtaining
graphic photographs of the severely burnt lad.
The
teen has been in custody since Tuesday and his parents,
Doodnauth Jaikarran and Shirley Thomas, allege that ranks had
them going from one police station to the next without
disclosing his whereabouts.
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The parents said that they eventually confirmed yesterday that
he is being kept at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station. However,
the ranks did not allow them to see him.
One man was charged yesterday for Bisram’s murder, and his
attorneys are also alleging that he was badly beaten .
It is unclear whether the teen is still being considered a
suspect or whether he has received any medical treatment for
what appeared to be severe burns to his genitals, midriff and
upper thighs.
The lad’s parents, who reside at Canal Number Two Polder,
said that they are too poor to retain the services of an
attorney, but Kaieteur News confirmed late yesterday that a
prominent attorney has offered to represent the teen and his
parents.
Sources said that the torture occurred at the Leonora Police
Station and claimed that a police sergeant, whom they named,
assisted in brutalising the young man.
Doodnauth Jaikarran, the teen’s stepfather said that he was
in his bedroom at around 21:00 hrs on Tuesday when he heard
someone calling for ‘Buck Boy’, which is his stepson’s
nickname.
Jaikarran said that he went outside and saw his stepson
kneeling on the floor, with some policemen standing over him.
He said that the ranks informed him that the teen was a
suspect in the murder of Ramnauth Bisram. They then informed
Bisram and his reputed wife that their son was being taken to
the La Grange Police Station.
Jaikarran said that they went the following day to La Grange
Police Station and confirmed that their son was being detained
there after he answered from the lockups when they shouted out
his name.
But Jaikarran claimed that when his wife returned on Thursday
she was told that her son had been transferred to the Leonora
Police Station, and that was when their trek from station to
station began.
Sunday,
November 01, 2009
According to Jaikarran, the Leonora police ranks advised her
to check at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station, where the ranks
informed Jaikarran’s reputed wife that her son was not
there, either. He was also not at the Den Amstel Police
Station.
“They send me to all the stations; from Wales to Leonora
from Leonora to Wales and up to now I can’t see me son,”
Ms. Thomas said.
Mr. Jaikarran said that he decided to try to locate his
missing stepson.
On Thursday, he took meals for the lad to the La Grange Police
Station, where the boy was originally detained. A female rank
told Jaikarran that his stepson had been transferred to the
Vreed-en-Hoop Station.
“At Vreed-en-Hoop, a fat man say go to La Grange. I go back
to La Grange and say ‘what yuh all got me on?’
Mr. Jaikarran said that he began to fear that his stepson had
died in police custody.
Yesterday, he widened his search to the Brickdam Police
Station, but his frustration mounted when a police officer
suggested that he check at the Leonora Police Station. He went
back there, and was told by a senior police officer to check
with the Vreed-en-Hoop Police.
There, a rank finally confirmed that the lad was in custody
there.
“They say ‘you can’t talk to him or see him’. However,
Mr. Jaikarran said that he heard his stepson answer from the
lockups when a police rank called his name.
Yesterday, an angry Jaikarran vowed to resort to the courts
for justice.
He said that the teen had done some carpentry work at Mr.
Bisram’s house some time ago when the building was being
constructed.
Kaieteur News understands that at least three other young men
from Canal Number Two are still in custody. One of them is a
17-year-old whose father, Hydar Ali, claimed that arresting
ranks slapped the lad and two friends before taking them into
custody on Wednesday.
Mr. Ali also alleged that one of the policemen kicked him
while he was lying in his hammock.
Meanwhile, the slain man’s father-in law and brother-in-law
were released from custody yesterday.
The brother-in-law, Gobin Ramustapha, who is about 50, was
detained at the Wales Police Station.
They were detained on Monday and a female relative alleged on
Thursday the police refused to tell her where the older man,
72-year-old Mohamed Ramustapha, was being held.
She said that the men were taken to a private physician to
ascertain whether they were mistreated while in custody.
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