Shot Prashad Nagar woman refuses to give statement to cops

Gavin Joseph

Police were yesterday forced to release miner Gavin Joseph on station bail, after his wife, who he allegedly shot twice in the shoulder last Friday, refused to give investigators a statement about the incident.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News that police have received no statement from Karen Kerr, 33, who remains admitted as a patient at a city hospital. When asked whether police can institute charges without the statement, Persaud said,