-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.
I am sure fineman and skinny dont know their bosses
since Blackie they should of known WHO E WORKS 4
since the jail break THEY SHOULD OF INVESTIGATED 2 FIND DA BOSS
This is a case where the inocent pays 4 the guilty
Roger Khan can also say a lot
Good work JS once again. You guys are really following your leads and is keeping the promise our Commish had made…WE WON’T LET UP…keep the pressure up on them, all of them who been harbouring and supporting Fineman, Skinny and the rest at large. We must catct them and stop this assault on our innocent peoples.
Dog macky Roger Khan is alleged to have been involved in the murder of 200 plus human beings. Did the govt and Gajraj not harbour and protect him why did the joint servjces not go after them(govt and gajraj) for harbouring and protecting Roger Khan?????
Like some of yall en read this story good, when the Js first got there they saw a young man and asked him who he be and he said a customer then the lil girl was asked where her mother is and she said she en know, then the lil girl said to asked the guy sitting there for her mother because thats her uncle, when the girl was then being taken away the mother suddenly looked through the window so who really covering for who, with all of this who ever said that she’ll admit having contact with skinny,interogation is no sunday school acitivity when u dealing wiht big ppl who r beniffiting from crime, but some a yall who leave comments on these articles only see the story one way once the JS is involved.
what has the eleven year old done to warrant her being taken away by the JS. Isn’t she supposed to have an adult present when being questioned by the JS? Is it ok now for the JS to just take peoples children just like that? Why wasn’t the president’s sister and her children been taken away by the police when they weren’t able to locate him after a report was made against him. Do you remember what was Minister Robeson Ben attitude when his son was arrested recently.
You ought to be ashame of your self trying to defend them with this stupid story you have to be a police , does being her brother gives him owner ship to anything his sister has he is a costumer,The child is eleven years old they have no right to speak to her with out her parents there and trying to her anywhere did she commit a crime you people are crazy .
bung bang whether or not you are a policeman I agree with you. Children can and are used as decoy for adults. Take for example in Africa children carry guns and use them, in Vietnam children led US army to their death many times. Why is a 11 year old child managing a shop, an uncle sitting in front of a shop and claims to be a customer, mother looks out the window when the racous involves her child, who is protecting the child could have been fine man or skinny taking away the child left to ten a shop by herself. We need to get real and stop knocking the police force and start trying to protect or little ones from seeing and being involved in all of these types of lawlessness. People make changes for the youths, stop making excuses for what should be and what happened. Look towards the future the youth of tommorrow. The adult of today is taimted.
It’s not fair that the daughter had to suffer at the hands of the police. After all she sounds innocent, and not knowing of her mother’s operations. She in my mind is only a child.
take them down
BECAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR!!!!!!!!!
why u all so concern now about Mss Lucy
What do you mean?
Do you want to replace her?
Fineman would have surely chased after such a name as yours!
Then you would have liked us to be sympathetic towards you.
Right?
What do you mean?
Lucy was caught with her pants down
Please stabrok ! be respectful !
That never did happen.
NOW ( AH HAVE TO USE UPPERCASE LETTERS ) PLEASE REREAD THE
REPORT AND YOU WILL SEE THAT SHE WAS FULLY DRESSED.
Now behave yuself !
satish and zaino you guys are bias. I know no body posting in here is supporting criminals. People are supporting justice and the rule of law and you call us evil. Quite frankly people are relieved that fineman and skinny are gone. These guys would kill me you or anybody in a heartbeat wether black or indian if they felt you were a threat to them. Get off the bias one side band waggon and support what is right chickens always come home to roost.
Did you guys stop to think however remotely possible that this woman might be innocent or are you guys so prejudice that you cant see pass your noses.
No we are not bias we are calling it like it is, whan did you ever hear that a criminal or their accomplice give in willing. They always cry innocense or ignorance to the fact. Remember these savages had supporters that aided and abetted them. These supporters has to be found trisd and punished. Finding them has to start from somewhere ,they are not going to come in voluntarily.
come on lucy make all guyanese proud of you, let the JS knows what you knows, it is worth to tell the truth, GOD WILL BE AT YOU SIDE TO FORGIVE YOU.
now u hearing every body innocent minu i am not saying they guilty but this always happen nobody never give de criminals nothing they get all dem supply from de sky even fatman and meatman innocent next u gonna hear kurbie saying dem a freedom fighter and dem na do nothing wrong and de family gonna say how dem chap dis was de bread winner for de home.i want some of rouge element to reply