The post-mortem examinations (PME) conducted on the three pirates and the police officer, who were killed during a shootout around 6.30 am last Friday at the Cromarty foreshore revealed that they died from shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot wounds.
Travis Glasgow
Detective Constable Travis Oslyn Glasgow, attached to the Whim Police Station was killed when the pirates opened fire on the police. The bullet pierced his bulletproof vest and hit him in the chest.
The police had returned fire killing the three heavily-armed pirates who have been identified as ex-soldiers James Gibson and Cliff Chichester and Cranston Gill. The men had also attempted to escape but they were cornered.
The pirates had hijacked a fishing boat in the Mahaicony River on Wednesday and it apparently developed mecha-nical problems causing them to moor it at the Rose Hall shore and hide among thick bushes. The pirates had also held five fishermen hostage and eventually killed one of them, Hector Boodhoo, 57, whose nude body was found bound to a tree with cuts on his ear and the back of his neck. The PME proved that Boodhoo died from ligature strangulation.
The first fisherman who was held, Veerasammy Narinesammy, 61, had told this newspaper that one of the gunmen had left with Boodhoo to get his four brothers who were still in the water repairing their seines, to join them in the bush when the Coast Guard vessel arrived.
James Gibson
During a search along the river on Thursday, the Coast Guards had spotted the boat that was equipped with two engines and after fixing the engines, two men who appeared to be fishermen left with it.
The two other pirates had taken the fishermen deeper into the bush and they all watched as the men were fixing the boat. While this was taking place the pirates had their guns trained on the boats.
After the fishing boat left the pirates got angry and bound the fishermen together using straps from the guns as well as other pieces of string from their bags.
The pirate who had taken Boodhoo returned at around 4.30 pm and told his accomplices that he had a boat they could use. The boat they were referring to belonged to a fisherman, Bisham Moteelall, 51, who was at that point coming in with his catch.
One of the pirates told the fishermen to remain in the bush until he and the others had left and then free themselves. Around 5 pm they managed to free themselves and ran through the thick bush at top speed “without looking back.”
On their way out the met Motilall and his family and also checked to see if Boodhoo had reached home and when they discovered he had not, they returned with his family to search for him.
Moteelall’s wife, Chandrawattie and their daughter, Shaleza had gone to the shore to assist him when two of the pirates had ordered him to empty the boat. The other pirate held a gun over his wife and daughter.
Moteelall who knew that the tank did not have much gas and that the pirates could not get very far was scouring the area when he noticed them pulling in the boat at the Cromarty foreshore on Friday morning.
The police were contacted and they responded immediately. They have recovered two AK-47 rifles and one 12-gauge pump-action shotgun and a quantity of ammunition including seven AK-47 magazines, 178 rounds 7.62 x 39 ammunition, fourteen 12-gauge cartridges and 28 rounds .30 ammunition, 17 round .40 ammunition, 6 rounds .45 ammunition, one round 9mm. ammo and an empty 12-gauge casing.
One of the AK-47 rifles has been identified as being one of those stolen from the Guyana Defence Force. Police also recovered a backpack, which contained the men’s belongings including a quantity of marijuana, clothing, toothbrushes, cell phone chargers, two SIM cards, a few tennis rolls in a packet and a bottle of all purpose oil; presumably used to clean the guns.
The police are continuing intense investigations in Berbice and Georgetown for possible linkages to the bandits.
Of course there are linkages. The links lie throughout the country. The stresses, poverty, unjust treatment, corruption, greed, etc are not endemic to Berbice and Georgetown. They are plagues brought on the entire country because of the ‘curse’ they voted upon themselves.
It is tha curse of those who choose to destabilize the country through their preachings of ‘ mo fyah, slow fyah’ and people like you who seems to be defending and supporting these rogues who are bent on causing mayhen and corruption in Guyana.
Your unshakable and unforgiving loyalty to the rulers that destroyed Guyana for 28 years has more of a “curse” on you Fulano…Take off those rose coloured glasses, maybe it will help to open your eyes to the “curse” that was brought onto Guyanese people by the once mighty rulers of three decades. They were the real “curse” that sent all scrambling overseas.
Police need to be train in first aid so they can help to stop bleeding in case of injury. With proper care this officer could have made it to a hospital and probably would have made it.
The cellular would definately give those cursed linkages/cohorts.
Fulano,
YOU kick rocks. Was the PNC stable? Oh, they were stable alright, stable being insecure for all those decades of creating corruption and destroying an entire country bringing shame and disgust to a people around the globe…making Guyana known to the international community only when we can explain where Guyana is via mentioning Jonestown.
We never read a full page spread of drug dealers because THERE WAS NO NEWSPAPERS to mention anything (the Chronicle, doh call that a papers, dat was a propaganda manual). Also, the big criminals at the time were free to peddle crime BECAUSE IT WAS THE PNC GOVT. THAT CREATE CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY so anyone, drug dealer, gun runner, police death squad, hussler, or anyone can “get – off”. All yuh had to do was know someone who drive a Lada, or someone who knew someone that drove a Lada or a Datsun 280c.
Do you want to continue???
The moment that anyone takes to unlawful acts which leads to the loss of life of others, especially hard working citizens, they must take full responsibility for the way they die.All of the innocent persons, who had a run in with these pirates, could have lost their lives olso.I am pleased to hear that the police did their part in bringing this matter to a close.It is true that their actions on most occasions leave much to be desired, but I still say congrats.In all respects we all need a better , and safer Guyana
There are many struggling poor people in Guyana that do not choose to kill and rob people. The go out and find jobs.
TELL ME WHERE ARE THE JOBS
i just dont think any one poor in guyana they are lazy, and if some one have family in america to help them they become more lazy,
How did those pirates left Sr Hector Boodhoo to die? So sorry if the Policeman bled to death,,,,,,,,,, but those pirates/criminals/murderers died the way they were supposed to,,,,,,,,,, agonizing.
good work by the guyana police…
i feel for Mr.Travis Glasgow and the Boodhoo, my Condolences and sympathy goes out the 2 family, and may god show you and give you the strengts that is most need in a time like this.. i cant imaging the feeling that those 2 family are going through!
No one seems to be asking the right question. For me the bandits could have died a much slower and far crueler death but why was a college left to bleed to death. This report promised more in its headline than it delivered. Why are the reporters not asking the hard questions to the right people? A policeman must feel protected and secure in his team. He must know that if he gets injured in the line of duty then there would be others who would give priority to his condition and try their best to preserve his life. It seems to me that he was left to bleed to death with the criminals. This is outrageous and un acceptable by any standard.
We are now left with this horrific tail to tell to young Glasgow, whom we would ask in later years to serve his country like his daddy did.
I commend the cops for their brave and prompt response that lead to the success of this operation, but cursed are the ranks that left their fellow soldier to die in like manner to the scoundrels he helped to eradicate.
I’m sure even the two devout politicians of this blog can agree with me on this point.
If by any chance I miss the mark in my critic then blame must be directed to this poor excuse of a journalistic report that we just read.
This is not reporting. Just the police rap sheet
THE POLICE FAMILY SHOULD SUE THE GPF FOR NOT PORVIDING PROPER BULLET VEST…. WONDER IF THEY CAN SEE THE UPC # FROM THE VEST??? TO TELL HOW IT OLDDDDDDDD & WORN OUTTTTTTTTTTTTT….
IN USA, SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS, LAW SUITS WILL BE FILED AGAINST THE POLICE FORCE….
hi boston, you ask me that question already and i told you that i am not the person you are inquiring about, i am not from m/cony, one love.
Remind me why more ppl are leaving Guyana TODAY! Further inform me why when someone is driving in a vehicle they have to be more carefull then when they are wallkling.
Please let me know why it is so impossible to export ANYTHING out of guyana and remember that this is 16 YEARS after.
OH SORRY THEY NEED MORE THAT 28 YEARS.
Those bandits and handing our these monies to someone I WONDER WHO .
There are more criminals in the POLICE FORCE AND IN THE GOVERNMENT THAT EVER.
and you all here talking about curse- were those ppl leaveing guyana because they were afaird to walk the street no the were leaving because the wanted us bajan and other dollars
Mackydog- Guyana was never responsible for Jonestown- If you know what i know at my age, you would know that Jonestown was the works of an AMERICAN AND SOME ON IT PPL- all we did was try for an adventure which never came to the original plan
how did they get their, who permit them to open business there, it only cost US$2M.
LFSB or more fondly called FAT BOY was the sole arbiter of giving Jim Jones a sanctuary in Guyana to carry out his mayhem. And who really got the three bags of USD that was supposed to go to the Russian Embassy in G/T whilst the massacre was taking place in Jonestown. The worst and most shameful part of that regime is and will forever be the infamous Jonestown slaughter of which the Burnham regime was part and parcel of and still is in denial of. And now all of you PNC expats living in N.A have the gall to call the pot black….what a joke….only thing is thou no one is really laughing about the innocent lives that were lost at Jonestown……Shameful that the then Army was the first people to arrive in the middle of the slaughter and still no one can or never will give an account of where all the money and gold and drugs disappered. Thats one of the greatest legacies of the PNC regime..an undenialable fact..For anyone to turn away from those dark days of PNC rule and not remember would allow us all to be condemned to the future…Our Youth is our future and deserve to know of this dark chapter in the history of our country and the history that is tied to the PNC(R1G).
ROSE HALL GOT TO GET BACK TO LONGTIME TACTICS IF YOU NOT FROM RHT MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE BEFORE 6PM YOU HAD GUYS LIKE TULA CORT AND THEM WILL CUT YOUR TAIL IF YOU NOT FROM THERE AND 6 O ‘CLOCK REACH YOU IN RHT.