The police were yesterday granted an additional 72 hours to keep three of the four men held over the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing in custody and lawyers have since alleged that one of them was beaten by the police.
Attorney at law Glen Hanoman last evening charged that police had beaten murder suspect Jason Abdulla on the soles of his feet and in an attempt to hide the injuries quietly went to the court to ask for additional time so that the injuries could heal. He said that he made a report of the allegation on Wednesday and requested that Abdulla be taken for medical attention but this was not done. Another of Abdulla’s counsel, Latchmie Rahamat told Stabroek News subsequently that minutes earlier her client reported to her that during the day police had taken him to the Georgetown Hospital. She said that he reported that the doctor who saw him was a foreign national and that he wrote on a medical that he had swelling and injuries to the bottom of his foot and subsequently placed it in a cast. On his return to the Eve Leary Police Station, she alleged that he was accompanied back to the hospital by three ranks who instructed the
