Social activist Mark Benschop said he was attacked outside Kwame McCoy’s Diamond, East Bank Demerara home where he had gone to take pictures yesterday morning, but police have since detained him on a charge of damage to property.
Benschop was being held at Brickdam Police Station without bail up to press time last night and his attorney Christopher Ram was denied access to him. Prior to his detention, Benschop called this newspaper to report that he was being victimized when he was “the victim”.
Benschop decried the justice system in the country saying that his report of damage to his vehicle and items being carted off were
