GDF denies torture claims

Private Dane Wilson (right) being interviewed by Force Welfare Officer Lieutenant Deon Heyliger. (GDF photo)

The Guyana Defence Force has denied claims that it tortured one of its ranks by stripping, beating and forcing him to lie on a “wet concrete floor while in custody at army headquarters, Camp Ayanganna.”

The GDF in a press release last evening  was responding to a Kaieteur News article of August 23, 2011 titled `Soldier’s mother  fears for his life’.

“This claim by Kaieteur News is far from the truth and the soldier, Private Dane Wilson, was interviewed and denied he