-family says she has been beaten
A mother of five has been detained by the police after her number was discovered in a cellular phone found on Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles at the time of his death and relatives have alleged that she has been beaten.
Relatives of Lucy Simon say she was carted off in handcuffs from a home in Sophia on Thursday evening.
Stabroek News was told that two van loads of soldiers and policemen descended on the home and arrested the woman and a brother, who has since been released.
Relatives said that the woman has since stated that she has been shuttled between the East La Penitence Police Station and Eve Leary and that she has been beaten. Police officials could not be reached yesterday for comment.
Relatives say she has since been informed that her number was found in Charles’ phone. She received a call on her phone sometime on Thursday but was not aware that she was talking to a law officer and revealed where she was after the information was requested.
The woman operates a shop in Sophia and according to her relatives she cooks and sleeps in the shop with her children.
The lawmen descended on the shop, which was at the time being operated by her 11-year-old daughter, late Thursday afternoon. Her brother was sitting outside the shop at the time and when he was asked who he was he told them that he was just a customer. According to the family, the child was roughed up after saying she didn’t know where her mother was.
As they were taking the child from the shop she told them the man sitting outside was her uncle and they should ask him where her mother was. Relatives said that the lawmen then started to beat her brother and at the same time Simon, who was above the shop in her relative’s home peeped out of a window. The officers saw her and entered the home. Simon and her brother were then carted off to the station.
Relatives stated that that the woman said she met Charles after visiting a relative in the prison but that he had never communicated with her since his escape. She said the only communication she has ever had with Charles was when he requested a bottle of water when she visited the prison. She does not know how he got her phone number.
The woman’s relatives are very concerned about her well being but said they can ill afford a lawyer at this time. The woman is said to be in constant pain and still nurses her one-year-old daughter.
She has since stated that the police have informed her that she would be charged with harbouring criminals.
“They must be want her to provide information on the other criminals but she ent know nothing,” one relative said.
She should be interogated and prosecuted once found guilty of harbouring a criminal .
When I receive my cellphone bill at the end of the month there is a page which lists all the calls sent/received, all the numbers which were called/received. All the Guyana police has to do is contact GT&T or Digicel and have them provide all the records for this woman’s cellphone. See how many times skinny called her and how many times she called him. See how long the phone calls lasted and see on what date he contacted her.
Now, some of you are claiming that you’ve gotten calls from strange men over a period of months. Men who call, find out it’s the wrong number, and still continue calling. Skinny escaped from jail about a month back…is any sane person expected to believe that skinny had enough time on his hands to call this woman just for fun? The police were looking for him – are we expected to believe that skinny actually had time to play games with this woman? This woman is innocent until proven guilty, but I have a belief that she was a bridge between fineman and skinny. Someone had to be the middleman (or woman) in their little reunion.
The fineman gang is not only guilty of murdering innocent Guyanese in Lusignan and Bartica, but also in Agricola, McDoom, Eccles, and Buxton. Anyone who even knew about the whereabouts of these men and failed to report it to the police are deemed as accomplices. No matter how you twist it or turn it, that person(s) is guilty and should face the full force of the law (that ‘full force of the law’ is a joke in Guyana, but it should be felt, nonetheless).
For all the folks who felt that the police should have negotiated with these men and taken them alive. You need to realize that the police can only operate based on their training. These men don’t have an ounce of experience when it comes to negotiating with criminals and talking them down; aside from what they see on TV. So, you can’t blame a child for something he wasn’t taught.
justice4all, your words are always greatly appreciated. In the future, instead of using such big words with little meaning…try using smaller ones which actually contain some sense. In my opinion, you are a fellow who got a lil education and now you’re trying to display it for all of us to see. Basically, a show-off. Keep it up, it’s having the opposite effect, my friend.
I AGREE WITH INK09 1OO% LET THE POLICE GET A PRINT OUT FROM THE CELL PHONE COMPANY, BUT FOR ALL U KNOW THE PHONES MIGHT HAVE BEEN BLOCK, BUT SKINNY CANT JUST GET THIS WOMAN NUMBER OUT OF THE BLUES, THEY HAD TO HAVE HAD SOME SORT OF COMMUNICATION AFTER HE ESCAPE FORM PRISON, MAYBE FOR ALL U KNOW SHE WAS THE ONE SUPPLYING THEM WITH FOOD STUFF, SHE DID SAY THAT SHE GIVE HIM A BOTTLE OF WATER WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON.
i can stand dis wen i see ppl like khufu takin prejudice,john brown takin tink b 4 u type,candee takin police 2 harsh and all gt takin about capture alive well i cannot help saying dis d 4 of u should ago wear dat uniform and see wat it takes den u all gonna stop cry fowl u see all 4 of dem flying us flag n even in de us wen dem same ppl da comit any crime and de police arrest dem guess wat ? dem a play de de race card.
every one miss the point, skinny was a criminal and did not have a cell phone in prison, i am 100% sure he obtain it after he had escape.
good point/well said. Don’t know what happened with the mind of some on this list/blog.
sorry for this poor girl , since when a phone number is a crime still not acting as detectives.
We need to leave Guyana to the backwards people that run it.
The JS is suppose to protect and serve the CITIZENS of a country, but in Guyana they serve the GOG at all costs. No one in the JS can make an independent decision, they all do what they are told to do by the GOG.
Gilhuys shoots a POLICEMAN and Henry Greene cannot say a word about it.
The Minister fires he gun at a man and nothing in done about it.
The cricketer shoots a POLICEMAN and nothing is done about it.
Accept it folks, Guyana in the land of LAWLESSNESS. It’s a hell hole that cannot come back and will always be the laughing stock of the Caribbean.
Who killed Axel Williams, Ronald Wadell, the owner of NABI and Sons, Donald Allison, Davenda Persaud, Nineties and a few hundreds more……. why can’t the JS solve some of those crimes?
LAWLESSNESS ….
I hope GOD has a special place for the all of them …
Hey guys,
indeed some of your comments are on the ball, while some I would consider silly. Some ask why did this woman brother lied, and that was the first question that cross my mind. Some one also asked a good question when this woman was visiting in prison, didn’t she know at the time it was skinny, and that bloger was smart to note that skinny did not have cell while e was n prison. So when??? and how??? Some f you are not taking n to consideration the fact that f the police did not try to take the child, they may not have known this guy was her uncle! So, when you write, think. When the police don’t deliver, we call them all kinds of names. If this woan know some thing, she may give hint that may ed to other gang members. We all know much of these guys in the GPF are not educated PPL, and they would do things the best ay they know. So, if we want the gang to be rid of, we must try what method is necessary; even if some might get hurt in the process. Everything cmes with sacrifice.
Telephone contacts are very important to Criminals.No need to go into details.Once the Police act intelligently they will be able to round up those still at large.There may be a net work.Fine Man And Skinny had to get good information,to roam,Berbice River,Bartica,Buxton,East Bank Demerara,and other Places.The calls can be easily traced.Be patient Joint Services there are More Cell Phone Messages.Keep up the Good Work.
They have the right to go after her and questioned her , considering having her number on his phone and having some form of conversation in the prison , leading up to her giving him water. I can understand the police being rough with her , they never do things the right way , except of course shooting the criminals instead of getting them alive for questioning. So if she’s an accomplice of have info. then they have to extract that info. at any cost . Remember the lives of the guyanese public is at risk here , info. is vital in preventing another Lusignan or Bartica . Fine man and his confederates might be dead but there are others just waiting to follow in his footsteps. God blass Guyana.