| Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Cecil Kennard, is expected to hand down his recommendation soon in the case against two police ranks who shot and killed a mentally ill man at Strathavon,nfl jerseys china, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara a little over two weeks ago.A source at the police Office of Professional Responsibility told this newspaper yesterday that their investigations were completed a while ago, and the file was sent to the PCA for the chairman’s recommendation.Following Kennard’s recommendation, the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions will be sought.On July 4, the two cops responded to a report that the mentally ill man, Junior Gulliver, was threatening residents at Strathavon.The ranks, who are both Constables attached to the Cane Grove Police Outpost,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys, were viciously attacked by Gulliver who was armed with a cutlass.The cops, who were unarmed during their initial response, were forced to flee to their car and the incensed Gulliver smashed one of the vehicle’s windows with the cutlass.The ranks returned to the station but were reportedly summoned back to the area after receiving information that Gulliver was still “tormenting” residents there.This time the ranks armed themselves and claimed that upon arriving back in the area, they were again attacked by Gulliver, causing them to have to resort to the use of force.But the man’s relatives as well as several neighbours have a totally different version of what transpired, with many of them claiming that Gulliver’s killing was premeditated, following the earlier confrontation.A woman, who said that she was an eyewitness, said when the police returned with their weapons, they hid behind some banana suckers at the back of Gulliver’s shack.“I ask dem whey dey going and dey say dey come fuh Reggie and he gon be a dead man,” the woman claimed. She said that subsequently Gulliver emerged from his hiding place and went into his shack, not aware that the police were still hunting him.“When he see de police, he sit down and dey tell he dat dey come fuh he. One ah de police say dat he gon shoot he and Reggie start fuh come down to dem and is then dey start fuh shoot he,NFL Cheap Jerseys,” the woman added.Another neighbour said,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, “I see everything. Dem shoot he with a long gun and de other one shoot with a small gun. There was no attack. Dey pre-meditated, because dey talk about it before.”The dead man’s mother said that the police acted with too much force. She said that she did not mind if they had wounded him, since she could have repaid the money for the damage to the car that he had caused.But the police ranks are maintaining that they were attacked and they acted according to standard operating procedures.“If they did not shoot him, he would have killed one of them,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping,” a police source said.The two ranks were initially placed under close arrest,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, but are now confined to barracks to await the determination of their fate. |
