– parents allege their sons were kidnapped for ID parade
During an identification parade yesterday the couple at Triumph who was attacked by gunmen last Friday failed to identify their attackers while some parents have since alleged that their sons were kidnapped and taken to the station for the ID parade.
Mahamood Husain and his wife Geeta of N½ Lot X Surat Drive, Triumph, East Coast Demerara, were attacked by two men with guns around 9:00pm last Friday as another posed as a customer at their shop.
The bandits beat the couple, especially the husband who had to be hospitalised for a chop to his head and a battered face. Geeta was lashed across her arm with the broadside of a cutlass.
Husain was discharged from the hospital on Monday. And yesterday around noon the couple was taken to the police station for an identification parade after three men were picked up later the same night of the attack.
According to Geeta, the boys on parade did not fit the description of the persons who had attacked her and her husband last Friday. Geeta had told this newspaper that two of the men appeared to be between the ages of 17 and 20. “The people they pick up were little, little boys. They don’t fit the people who rob us,” Geeta said.
Meanwhile, Senita Henry, mother of two of the boys picked up later in the evening after the Husains were attacked is claiming that her sons were kidnapped. The upset mother vowed to go all the way with the matter since her sons’ characters have been defamed.
According to Henry her sons, one a 20-year-old and the other a 16-year-old, had followed a friend home to Good Hope on the East Coast and on their way back home they were forced into a car by men wearing blue berets around 11:00 pm on the Mon Repos Public Road.
Her sons were held at the police station since Friday until yesterday when they were released after they were not identified as the Husains’ attackers. Henry is further claiming that her sons were not allowed to call home neither did the police call her to inform her what had happened to her boys.
It was after making inquiries she said that the friend they had followed home told her that the police had held her sons. The friend, she said, told her that the police had visited his place with the 20-year-old to verify their story.
Meanwhile, Henry added that her sons said that a taxi had pulled up alongside them while they were making their way back home and men armed with cutlasses forced them into the car and took them to the BV Police Station.
A furious Henry said that she will be making a complaint to the Police Complaints Authority, insisting “I aint sitting down ya know I going far with this.” Henry is maintaining that her sons are good boys, adding that “I wud bet ma last dollar” that no record can be found of her boys at the station.
The mother is also worried about the fate of her 20-year-old’s job since he works with the Audit Department of the Guyana Revenue Authority. Meanwhile, police investigations are ongoing.
