-calls to police station rang out
Following threats and a prior attack, a Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara fireman was early yesterday morning brutally chopped to death by three men in a shocking attack which residents said would not have occurred had police heeded several reports made by the deceased man.
Patrick Daly
Patrick Daly, 30, locked himself in an outhouse but his attackers forced it open, threw acid on him, dragged him out and chopped him to death. Four persons were in custody up to yesterday afternoon, but two others who participated in the attack had not been located by law enforcement authorities. The assailants lived in the same building as Daly, and his wife said that the attack was sparked by complaints about the noise they made.
Police said last evening that an investigation has been launched into the murder. The lawmen said in a statement that Daly was in an outhouse in his yard when three male suspects with whom he had a recent misunderstanding confronted and threw a corrosive substance on him then inflicted several chops about his body and fled the scene. He died before receiving medical attention and his body is awaiting a post-mortem examination, the police said, adding that the suspects are still being sought as investigations continue.
Daly worked at the Timehri Fire Station and was in the Guyana Fire Service for the past 11 years. Struggling to maintain her composure, his reputed wife Denise George told Stabroek News yesterday that her husband had gotten up to go to the bathroom around 5.30 am yesterday. She said that shortly after, she heard him calling her name and when she went outside, she saw two men, one holding a cutlass and the other holding a container, with what she learnt was acid, standing outside the toilet.
Daly had locked himself in the toilet while his attackers demanded that he come out. “They seh, ‘come out here, leh we done yuh dance, we gon kill you,’” George recalled.
The outhouse (right), where Patrick Daly was attacked. Large amounts of blood were still visible on the grass where he was dragged and died yesterday.
The grieving woman recounted that her husband told her to call the police and she did so but received no answer from the Timehri Police Station. By this point another man had joined in the attack and with an iron bar, wrenched open the door. “When they open the door, they pull he out and throw the acid on he and start chop he,” the woman recalled. She said that he kept calling for her to call the police but “the phone keep ringing out.” Daly’s attackers dragged him a short distance away to the backyard.
“I lef and run out the yard, go pun the road, catch a bus and go to the station,” George recalled. She said she returned with two policemen but by then the men had already fled and her husband was dead.
Neighbours said that another man picked up the attackers in his car and drove away. The driver, the man who wrenched open the toilet door, a woman who allegedly supplied the cutlass and another man were later held by police. They are all relatives and the woman also lives in the same building.
A grieving Denise George (sitting) and a friend at her home yesterday.
The men had earlier threatened to kill Daly and had attacked him on Sunday, George said and this was corroborated by other residents. A number of persons rent
apartments in the building and they said that the assailants usually drank a lot and made a lot of noise.
Recently, the residents said, the landlord told them about it but they verbally abused him. On Saturday night, one of the men reportedly attempted to attack the landlord but Daly and another man went to his assistance.
This incident was said to have made them very angry and they threatened that they would kill Daly. The following day, the men attempted to attack Daly as he was returning from buying cooking gas and he had to run into a neighbour’s house to escape them. They attempted to follow him but were prevented from doing so by the homeowner.
George said that on Sunday, her husband reported the matter to the Timehri Police Station and, according to her, spent the entire day there in an attempt to get the police to go to the house to arrest the men, but to no avail. He returned to the police station on Monday, but again the police did not go to the house. They had also called the police at Grove, who referred them to Timehri and they called 911, all to no avail, George said. A number of residents had gathered to offer support to the grieving George and they were angry that the police had not responded to the calls. They said that the police had offered the excuse that they had no vehicle.
“’Til this murder happen, then they come,” said one upset resident, “This boy life coulda save.”Residents called for the police at Timehri to “act properly…they ain get no help from the police. If the police de come, the man life woulda save.”
Daly and George had been together for three years and had no children. Neighbours described him as “very quiet and peaceful” and a humble person.
Today we are back to square one. The inaction of the police in this case makes them culpable. The relatives of this fireman should sue the polise, the commissioner, the Home Affairs Minister and the Attorney General.
Guyana is like the Wild West. With all these killings and choppings and beatings being reported one gets the impression that is a set of ignorant people left in that place. Imagine a doctor and an ex-policeman being charged for entering a mans’ house hauling him out and detaining him at the doctors’ house and beating him because the victim’s brother owes the doc money.
Anything less than the death penalty would be an injustice for such a grusome and heartless crime!!!!!!!!!!!! Then again…there is no hope that the appropriate penalty would be meted out to anyone convicted.
EX ! Is that it ?! Sue. Please. They need a dose of what happened to Mr. Daly. Nothing more or nothing less. They know who are the suspects. Hunt them down as quickly as they hunted down the kidnappers. Oh! there is no reward money in this.
All sense of decency and respect seems to be lost. I wonder how much further will Guyana sink.
I agree with Samaroo….the police should be tried as complicits in this murder…or they should be made to prove why they did not respond in anyway possible after this man..A PUBLIC SERVANT also.., spent one WHOLE day making a report…
Soooo, what do you want to do? Save the world? Impossible.First, save yourself and then try that tactic.This is a tragedy, that is a force of human nature.Since the beginning of time it has always been us against them.Crime is an indellible part of the landscape, and would never go away.Let us hope that the victims are awarded justice or it’s appearance, and the murderers are swiftly dealt with.Just a couple more lines to get you going as you swallow your dinner of plantains, duff, and saltfish.Tomorrow when you awake there will be a new series of crimes in the land, and we start all over again solving them.A sign of the times.
Ironically, a few months ago Mr. Rohee stated he is satisfied with the qualifications of members of the Police Force.
Yet, in the face of continuous and unbridled criminality and corruption, the PPP administration has failed to carry the Security Sector Reform Program, which is designed to make The Police Force and Security Services efficient and proffessional – with parliamentary oversight.
Instead, the administration has indulged in a charade of political rhetoric, ’spin’ and propaganda, in its (PPP) efforts to sabotage and derail the necessary reforms.
What a generation. No one’s got respect for authority, themselves and their neighbors. What’s going on in Guyana these days. Chemical and cutlass attack on a member of the uniformed services? Please ministers of Guyana Government, bring back the death penalty and hang these low lives.
Any congrats for the police today? JS did great job protecting this man who spent an entire day seeking police assistance?
Wow Rohee and his boys continue to fail the people of Guyana.
I am shocked that there are no congratulations today for the police though, really disappointed.
What exactly is Jagdoe and Rohee doing with this police force? 17 years later and a man has to go to a police station for a whole day and lodge a complaint and nothing happens then he gets killed?
come on man where is this government who exactly are they protecting?
Do we need Raja Khan to help with this too?
RIGHT AWAY, JAIL THEM *&%##@*&& AND LET THEM SPENT THE REST OF THEIR LIVES IN A TOILET BECAUSE THEY ARE NOTHING ELSE BUT WHATS IN A TOILET.
yea in de toilet at brickdam right?
Sandman, it got a blogger on this site name Samaroo,,you better do not pray for him to read this comment, I agree with you but he will hang you alive,,,According to him these Criminals should be held in 5 star hotels,,,Did he ever tell you of his AFC plans for Guyana??? He said his Ministers will live in mud houses, drive donkey carts, and the criminals and other people will live in 5 stars…Everybody else will come first and then their Ministers,,,this is their master plan and Manifesto for 2011 election…
SandHurst was it you who once said in referring to someone who committed a crime, jail all ah them and done or jail them all and done?
soldier, you are out of order. this type of garbage that you write should be printed in the chronicle. come on sn;are we lowering our standards to accomadate these people?
Send them to jail as well as the police who abandoned their duty to to citizenry of this country They are just as complicit.
When is this government going to fire rohee? this man is the most incompetent minister Guyana has ever seen!
The people in Guyana has gone CRAZY.There is no more respect for LIFE.A serious investigation needs to be carried out on the Timehri Police.The Station Sergeant and ranks should all be transfered to the Interior.A Life was taken because the Police did not respond.
This is like Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Guyanese want to lve like Americans. They are getting there is a hell of a hurry. They are getting it all.
This is sad and gruesome and although not a supporter of capital punishment this incident has me thinking how do we permanently rid society of the people who committed this heinous act. They lack humanity and are unworthy of sharing the same environment as civilized people. This is a cold blooded planned murder done by cowards. I am certain he would have adequately defended himself if confronted by one of these brutes. But they had to come like a pack of rabid dogs.
BP: Once again I second your thoughts. What a horrific way to die; these guys are beasts!
We still have “Neanderthals” on the loose….this is such a brutal crime.
Circumstances and backgrounds may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
WITCH DR! It was the warlike Homo sapiens (looking like you & me) who wiped out the peaceful Neanderthals.
Daly went to the assistance of the landlord when the landlord was being attacked, but no one went to his assistance. Incidents like this are all too common in Guyana. Most people know the Guyanese police are useless, but won’t take matters into their own hands when necessary to stop thugs from inflicting harm on innocent people. It is because of incidents like this that I am not too keen about the idea of large numbers of Guyanese migrating to Barbados. It is painful to read about these incidents happening in Guyana. It is downright terrifying to know that people like the perpetrators of this crime can migrate to Barbados.
all those who participated in this heinous act do not spare them the penalty of the law. let them served as examples for the rest that are thinking to do the same thing
When will the people of Guyana say enough is enough and demand changes to the way the security infrastructure in GY is managed?
Neighbours described Mr Patrick Daly who worked at the Timehri Fire Station/Guyana Fire Service as “very quiet and peaceful” and a humble person yet; in a killing which is becoming chillingly NORMAL in Guyana, he was attacked with acid and chopped to death by three neighbours ASSISTED BY A WOMAN because he appears to have requested peace and quiet.
To bloggers like Hackett who are emphatic that the death penalty SHOULD NEVER BE USED, they should see the kind of creeping lawlessness which is taking over simple matters in Guyana. CURRENT DETERRENT PENALTIES FOR SERIOUS CRIMES IN GUYANA ARE LAUGHABLE.
When haters of capital punishment claim that the death penalty is no a deterrent, they are fooling nobody but themselves.
Sincere condolences to poor Denise George and the Daly family however it is impossible to replace this gentleman who made it his life to try rescue those in danger and YET when he needed the help of the police, they were found seriously incompetitent.
I agree with you here Satish,,,my condolences to this family,,,This is high class slackness by the Timehri police and they should take the responsibilities for this man’s death…
Satish i am one of them who oppose the death penalty, and you know what the death penalty is alive and well in ny, and other states, but guess what cold blooded crime still happens, so it’s not a deterendt to crime.
SATISH! The death penalty is NOT used in the Queen’s England and HM’S other territories and in the EU. And those countries have far lower murder rates than Guyana’s. Don’t you feel SAAAAAAFER?
Again the government is not responsible for anything in GY including these failures of the police.
The death penalty, will not stop all cold blooded crimes, but it will significantly help to reduce it in Guyana, where, there is almost unbridled criminality and corruption, and the lack of other methods of deterrence.
If, there are no firm istitutional methods of deterrence to prevent these brutal attacks and killings of civillians, then, members of the society will turn to vigilanties – the Roger Khan ‘Phantom’ killing gangs and other forms of anarchy, to defend themselves and seek some form security and redress.
Guyanese, do not have the tools and ‘niceties’ of European and other societies do in preventing crime. They (Guyanese)should use what they have (death penality), which has a history of ‘driving fear’ in the minds of criminals in Guyana and significantly helped in preventing lawlessness.
Even in nursery schools, MXQBH; teachers show toddlers how NOT TO PUT ROUND PEGS IN SQUARE HOLES.
GUYANA IS NOT in the Queen’s England.
GUYANA IS NOT in the EU.
Those areas have had 2000 years of civilization before they got to where they are.
Guyana is only now in the kindergarten of its nationhood.
This current ghastly murder/slaughter should show you clearly that YOUR British judicial system is NOT good enough for the totally different outlook of the Guyanese criminal.
Please do not think UK/EU solutions will automatically work in Guyana. That would be like putting round pegs in square holes.
SATISH!Be literal not figurative. Guyana was once a BG colony with all the laws of the UK, once part of that “2000 yr” (sic) civilization – actually is more like 900 yrs. What happened since independence was a departure from that civilization. The US state of Texas has the highest rate of capital punishment AND the highest murder rate. And “ghastly” indeed, spoken like a true Englishman!
Let us agree to disagree as usual if nothing else, MXQBH.
How guyanese can be so cruel to one another, i hope these low life are caught and brought to justice,
THIS WOMAN (WIFE) SHOULD GO TO LEGAL AID AND SUE THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE FOR FAILING TO ACT AND SAVE THIS MAN LIFE
THEY (POLICE) SHOULD BE TRIED WITH THE ACCUSED FOR THE LIFE OF THIS MAN.