-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.
well i agree with the law man for one reason ,maybe they fine the phone when fine man an skinny was kill an the numbers keep comming an comming . but i dont agree with to question the child , but this is good in my home contry,for the law man to question kids.becarefull of what u all are building , ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,now if you go an call the number why go an harrased the person anybody can get any one phone number ,maybe it happen in the prison the woman says she new him in prison when she visit someone,maybe that some call her . the police need to stop harrased the public an get an better way to deal with their job,if they have want all the imformation ,they had the mens an they kill them now they acting all hip up
I don’t know when some people will start putting on their thinking cap. I have had people called me on many occasions and never knew them but they had my cell phone number. it is possible to give one person your number and they inadvertently loose it and people with bad intentions or wickedly use your number to mislead someone. not every wrong number you dial you immediately remove it from your phone and by not doing that , you sometimes can forget completey to delete it. some of you need to think before you type.
John Brown, you talikin’ bout putting on thinking cap. You stupid or wuh? The lady number was stored in the phone’s address book. It wasn’t a wrang number (a call that was rec’d). Put on yuh thinking cap, banna…why she run and hide if she na gat nothing fuh hide. Why she brother misled da police about e identity. Is this obstruction of justice. I guess yuk gon sey how they fraid of the police, but is only people with certain kind a character are harrassed. you stupid or wuh?
Lame! lame! lame! indeed. As the old saying goes “facts don’t need fork stick to keep it up”.
Food for thought I have it on good authority that “Fineman” commited suicide.
He had vowed never to be taken out. Seon Grant was the one that ratted them out for the 50million, but never lived to get it. They knew the JS were closing in on them so he took his own life, maybe they can get credit for killing skinny but not Rondell….
I reat my case….
I surely agree with you fulleyes.
I believe in ethical retribution, and for all those people who died in Lusignan and Bartica, I say apprehend and impose all punishment requisite on all accomplices of the beasts who were justifiably slaughtered.
Suddenly the Lucys and other “innocent” repositories of wanted men numbers are crying injustice?
I say give them what is due to them.
George Bush is sending the Water Boarders Jagdeo is too harsh on these poor souls.
OK guys, the police are just doing their job. However if the police want information on the gang and all the weapons stolen and how, why the heck do they not capture one of these guys alive. Unless, the information extracted from them would implicate some known individual.
Yoh stupid or wuh? Who is surrendering? How is the police supposed to bring em in alive when he gat AK47s and shooting? You should join de police force if you suh smart.
It’s good they make an arrest to continue the investigation on the criminal gangs…but they need to be more professional instead of …..brute force and ignorance…especially the way they rough up the 11 year old girl….do u know that could have a negative influence on the kids life….
the police wanted someone wid info i dont agree wid them rough up the people
cause if i was a police and i rough up they kids or they wife they wuda be angry
wid me too the cuda ask questions wid out beatening her or her family
If ya keep de criminals alive they may start talking like RK doing so when they finally get catch (as if they didn’t know where they were all this time) they have to mek sure that they kill dem dead, cause….dead men tell no tales.
Rememba blackie aka Linden London and Bovell?
We all have friends and yet we don’t know what they do when the’re out there , this woman claims she doesn’t know this skinny ok fine, there will be doubts , lets start from the top again , who did she went to visit in jail ? he should be questioned too as well and why whould she collect a contact no# from someone who is in jail ? don’t she read the news she must know that he was wanted for alot of murders at that time why would she collect a no# from him .. skinny was later an escapee this should have be another alert to her , from then on she should already deleted that no# , then skinny got shot dead and she still have the no# lolz .. get real people does she thinks people are stupid like she is , they should trace the other no#s too , that may lead the J/S to more of them its comonsense .