Mark George, the policeman who was shot on Woolford Avenue last Thursday was transferred to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) yesterday morning and is resting comfortably, a release from the Georgetown Hospital said.

Reports reaching Stabroek News are that George, a Tactical Services Unit (TSU) rank and Festival City resident is fully conscious and is talking.

Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys was questioned in relation to the shooting and was placed on station bail. This newspaper was told yesterday that the file is now in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who will advise on the way forward.

Following the June 26 shooting which occurred on Woolford Avenue, Gilhuys proceeded on voluntary leave and all of his cases have been adjourned to new dates.

The shooting occurred outside Stella Maris Nursery around 11 pm and reports had indicated that ranks of a mobile patrol unit noticed a heavily tinted vehicle parked on the roadway and decided to carry out checks. It was then that ranks discovered that it was Gilhuys who was in the vehicle and after a verbal exchange the magistrate allegedly discharged his firearm injuring George who managed to run a few feet before collapsing in the drain outside the St Joseph High School.

Gilhuys has since denied that he fired first.  Following the shooting, the magistrate went to the Brickdam Police Station where he refused to hand over his weapon but left his bullet-riddled Rav 4 parked in the compound. He returned the following day in the company of his lawyer Nigel Hughes and was later released on station bail.

George who sustained damage to some of his vital organs underwent an emergency operation shortly after arriving at the hospital.

He was admitted a patient of the Intensive Care Unit where he was hooked up to a life support machine.