Doctors at the Georgetown Hospital have said that shot policeman, Mark George’s condition has improved, a relative said yesterday.
His brother, Alwin told Stabroek News that he is getting better and is still squeezing people’s hands.
“I am confident that he is going to make it. He will pull through”, he said adding that he is not at all surprised at his brother’s improvement.
Reports reaching this newspaper are that the hospital has passed instructions that only George’s close relatives are allowed to see him.
In the days following the shooting, many persons including friends and co-workers had flocked the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where he is a patient, to see him.
Meanwhile, Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys who is accused of the shooting abided by the police’s order yesterday and turned up at the Brickdam Police Station. Stabroek News was told that this was one of the stipulations of his release.
Six days have passed since the magistrate shot at ranks on Woolford Avenue injuring George in the process and no charges have been laid.
The police were to seek the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the way forward and were to have submitted the file after collecting a final statement.
Police Commissioner, Henry Greene said that they are waiting on a statement from “the guy in the hospital bed”.
He was responding to questions raised by reporters about the status of the investigations following the handing over of motor vehicles to the Force by the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday.
Under normal circumstances, the shooter can be charged with discharging a loaded firearm with intent and/or felonious wounding or attempted murder.
Meanwhile, up to press time last evening George’s condition was still listed as critical having sustained damage to some of his vital organs from the single gunshot which entered his back and exited his stomach. He remains a patient of the ICU, hooked up to a life support machine. George had undergone an emergency operation shortly after he arrived at the medical institution.
The June 26 shooting occurred along Woolford Avenue, outside Stella Maris Nursery and reports indicate that ranks of a mobile patrol unit noticed a heavily tinted vehicle parked on the roadway and decided to carry out checks. It was then that ranks discovered that it was Gilhuys who was in the vehicle and after an exchange, the magistrate allegedly discharged his firearm injuring, George who managed to run a few feet before collapsing in the drain outside the St Joseph High School.
Gilhuys has since denied that he fired first. Following the shooting, the magistrate went to the Brickdam Police Station where he refused to hand over his weapon but left his bullet riddled Rav 4 parked in the compound. He returned the following day in the company of his lawyer Nigel Hughes and was later released on station bail.
