Jason Montgomery, the Australian shot during the robbery a month ago at Safraz’s Bar, was taken off his flight in London for urgent medical treatment.

Jason Montgomery

The man boarded a flight at Timehri on Sunday morning, the first of several which would take him home. He was originally expected to arrive in Australia today.

Stabroek News had learnt from Montgomery’s business associate, Mark Xavier, that his parents hired a medical escort from a Florida-based company to take him to Australia. After the London flight he was expected to stop at Dubai and finally Singapore before reaching his homeland.

Montgomery, 36, sustained a gunshot wound in the abdomen. On the night of January 8, when three gunmen stormed Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant on David Street, Kitty, Montgomery was one of two patrons who were injured. A waitress, Kulmattie Singh, was fatally shot in the head.

After the incident, Montgomery was admitted to the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He was released from the GPH three days later on January 12. Montgomery was admitted the same day to a private hospital. He was a patient of that hospital’s Intensive Care Unit since January 12.

His mother, Sandy Brosnan, has since said that he is being treated for pneumonia and a number of infections in the London hospital. She was reported as saying, “The air escort evacuation personnel got him on a commercial flight. He was supposed to come through to Australia after a rest in London”.

Brosnan said her son has “serious infections” and he is now being treated and a lot of tests have been done.

“All his flights have been put on hold until his condition is stable but he’s certainly in a far, far better place,” Brosnan was quoted as saying.