A man who was shot in the right eye during last year’s protest in Linden was among the four persons who made compensation claims to the Linden Commission of Inquiry (COI) yesterday
Leslie Stephens, who was part of the protest actions when he was shot in the right eye, David Shemroy Vigilance and two businessmen, Vishnu Singh and Carlton Mohan, whose trucks were destroyed, catalogued their losses to members of the COI, when hearings continued at the Supreme Court Law Library.
Relatives of the three men—Ron Somerset, Shemroy Bouyea and Allan Lewis—who were shot dead at the start of the protest on July 18 are expected to testify today. Although they had been slated to testify in the presence of their attorney, Nigel Hughes, yesterday afternoon, they were absent when the hearing resumed. Chairman of the COI, former Chief Justice of Jamaica, Lensley Wolfe then announced that the COI will continue today with the relatives of the deceased testifying.
Stephens claimed that a pellet is still in his eye and he has to undergo surgery to
