A mother of two got the shock of her life yesterday afternoon when her 10-year old son hanged himself as she desperately sought the release of her older son from police custody.
Dead is 10-year old St Paul’s Primary School, Plaisance student Christopher Bernard called ‘Owen’, whose address was given as Lot 17, Prince William Street, Plaisance and Lot 65, Better Hope South, both on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).
According to the young man’s mother, Vanessa Bernard, she spent most of the past two days “running behind the police to release and at least see meh 14-year old son”, who along with three other teenagers were arrested by the police on Friday afternoon for theft. She said that the boy and his three friends, two of whom are his cousins were
