Family suspects foul play in death of Bartica youth with spine fracture

Rickford Newton

The mother of Rickford Newton, the youth who succumbed last after allegedly suffering an injury during a football game, believes that he was a victim of foul play due to the severity of his injuries.

“I believe that it got more side in this thing… I calling for action and justice. The story ain’t going down like that,” a distraught Carol Newton yesterday told Sunday Stabroek.

Rickford, 19, a miner of Byderabo Road, Bartica, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) around 3 pm last Tuesday.