Police are seeking the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to determine whether charges should be laid against an Ithaca cattle rancher who is believed to have shot and killed a 35-year-old man on Saturday.
Marlon Fraser called `Bruk Hand’ of Ogeer Street, Rosignol was shot dead by the cattle rancher around 10 am after he was accused of stealing cattle. The rancher, who is a licensed firearm holder reported the matter to the police and was subsequently taken into custody.
The suspect had told the ranks that Fraser attacked him with a cutlass and he pulled out his licenced firearm and shot him.
A senior policeman in Berbice told Stabroek News yesterday that the rancher is still in custody. He said that the file was completed and sent to the DPP sometime yesterday for advice on the way forward.
The officer said that a post-mortem conducted on Fraser on Monday revealed that he died from shock and hemorrhaging due to a gunshot wound.
Meanwhile at his Rosignol home, his reputed wife Michelle Bess was still in a state of shock. She recalled that someone called her relative and informed them that Fraser was shot by a man in the Ithaca savannah. She said that he had been working there for several years looking after a man’s cows and never had a problem with anyone.
The woman who has four young children with Fraser said that by the time she could have reached the public road, the hearse was already passing with his body.
She said she later saw him at the morgue and there was a big hole in his neck and his stomach, hands and feet were burnt up.
Bess described her reputed husband as a quiet person who never quarrelled and got into fights.
Fraser will be laid to rest tomorrow.
Seem to me there is some disconnect between the Farmer’s story and the condition of the victim’s body (neck & stomach wound, burnt hands & feet) suspected torchure.
I’m sure that the DPP is suspicious of this farmer who claimed that the victim attacked him.
My sympathy to the family loss, this man was earning a living and everyone in Ithaca knew him. What a shame.
“A senior policeman in Berbice told Stabroek News yesterday that the rancher is still in custody. He said that the file was completed and sent to the DPP sometime yesterday for advice on the way forward”.
……………….how long does an investigation of this type take…………………strange,………………………look at the time the lad was shot………………..where he was shot……………….the distance from the police department doing the investigation………….note how quick the files were submitted to the dpp………………..take note this man should never…………never,……………..and i repeat never,………………….. been given a fire arm in the first place………….. licensed holder, it seems any one can get a fire arm licene now in guyana with out a back groung check……………. drunk or sober…………….and you can shoot as long you connected………………..s.n go deeper into this story and you will get the true facts……………….dpp please don’t treat this like gilhyus files…………………
If the police is consistent, this man should be allowed to go out on his own recognisance a la Gilhuys, while the GPF awaits the DPP’s advice. His gun is licensed! This indicates the absent of equal consideration by the GPF as they administer their concept of equal before the law here in the Good Guyana.
NOW U SEE THE DIFFERENCE .THEY SENT THE FILE TO DPP AND STILL HAS THE MAN IN A LOCK-UP.THAT IS GOOD LETS WAIT AND SEE.SN KEEP US POSTED.
Whats the difference with this case and gilhuys? Can anyone enlighten me.