| By Latoya GilesAttorney-at-Law Khemraj Ramjattan is bitterly disappointed that the police ranks accused of setting his teenage client’s genitals alight may escape punishment because the victim has reportedly accepted a financial settlement.“It’s shameful and disappointing that justice would not prevail…It was a travesty what was done to that young child,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale,” Ramjattan told Kaieteur News yesterday.Ramjattan said that he was last in contact with his clients over two months ago.According to the attorney, they never indicated that they were accepting compensation. In fact, his clients said that they were eager to proceed with criminal prosecution and that they were anticipating the outcome of the High Court ruling.The teen, through his attorney, had also filed a constitutional motion that was heard by Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire. Her judgment is being awaited.The lawyer said that he strongly suspects that the teen was either compensated or was threatened.Meanwhile, a legal official, who was closely associated with the case, said more should have been done to shield the teen and his family from persons who would have wanted to coerce them to drop the matter.The official said that even though the relatives did not request “witness protection,” given the gravity of the offence, the Police Force should have offered it.The official said that it would be “heartrending” to see a good and very strong case “just go down the drain” because the defendants got through to the witnesses.The official also said that they are continuing the search for the teen.On Friday last, Deonarine Rafick, Nouravie Wilfred and Twyon Thomas, the teen whose privates were reportedly set alight last year by three police ranks, again failed to appear in court.The case against the ranks who allegedly brutalised them now appears to be in jeopardy.The matter is being heard before Magistrate Naysha Williams-Hatmin, at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.It has since been adjourned to December 6.There have been reports that the victims have all accepted financial settlements.Contacted by telephone on Friday, the teen’s mother,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Shirley Thomas told Kaieteur News that her son “gone up in the bush,Wholesale Jerseys 2018,” and that she was unable to contact him.Further efforts to contact the family on their telephone numbers have been unsuccessful.The woman’s reputed husband had claimed that an individual had approached them about compensation, but that they had refused.Relatives of Deonarine Rafick, one of the men who was allegedly brutalised, admitted to accepting compensation.Rafick was charged with the murder of Region Three vice-chairman , Ramenaught Bisram, last year October. However, he was released from prison after it was determined that his confession was not free and voluntary. One of Rafick’s relatives told Kaieteur News that the officers and other persons begged them to settle the matter.The relative said that the money was paid last month.Rafick, Nouravie Wilfred and the then 15-year-old Thomas were held during the investigation into the murder.During the investigation, the teenage boy’s genital area was allegedly set alight by the policemen involved in the case. He was only taken to a hospital after Kaieteur News published his story and photographs of his injuries.The story sparked international outrage, and the teen and his family received financial and other assistance from benevolent organisations.Sergeant Narine Lall, Constable Mohanram Dolai and Corporal Oswald Foo were charged last November for allegedly inflicting the injuries while interrogating Thomas and the other two accused at the Leonora Police Station.According to the charges brought against the trio,Wholesale Stitched Jerseys, on October 28, at the Leonora Police Station, they unlawfully and maliciously wounded Rafick,Cheap Jerseys USA, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or cause him grievous bodily harm.A second charge against Lall and Dolai alleged that between October 20 and October 29, last, at the Leonora Police Station; they unlawfully and maliciously wounded Wilfred.The duo was also slapped with a charge of felonious wounding, which alleges that they unlawfully and maliciously wounded the 15-year-old boy, with intent to maim,Wholesale Jerseys Online, disfigure, disable or cause him grievous bodily harm. This incident allegedly occurred on October 28, last at the Leonora Police Station. |
