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A court matter against five police officers who were accused of robbing three gold miners of 16 pennyweight of gold was yesterday dismissed by Magistrate Brendon Glasford in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.The five police officers following the dismissal of their matterThe cops, Constable Kosi Arthur,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, 25,Cheap Jerseys From China, of Linden, Region 10; Constable Raphael Lowenfield, 25,CHeap Jerseys USA, of 486 Section ‘D’ Block ‘X’ Diamond,NFL Jerseys Chinese, Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara; Lance Corporal Mark Fernandes, 34, of Annandale, Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara; Constable Delroy Duncan of 71 Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, and Constable Akeem Thompson, 21, of 65 Bel Air Village, GeorgetownMagistrate Glasford stated that of the ten witnesses the prosecution called upon to testify, only seven showed up, and in his opinion none of the witnesses added any benefit to the Prosecution’s case.The magistrate further stressed that the main witness, who is the Virtual Complainant, Sherwin Noel, indicated that he cannot read and told the court that he came off a plane from the interior and on July 25, he was placed in a police vehicle with five policemen who took him along with four other individuals,Wholesale Jerseys Chinese, they conducted,Cheap NFL Jerseys Chinese, a search and found a yellow object appearing to be gold. They told him he had to hand it over.Noel told the court that the police officers stopped the vehicle and asked him what he was going to do, and he handed over his five pennyweight of raw gold to them because he was scared.The Magistrate stated that during the cross examination three things stood out to him: the Virtual Complainant (VC) told the court that the first time he saw the five police officers was on the day that they appeared in court.Secondly,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, an identification parade was never held, and thirdly the Virtual Complainant is unable to read, so in his opinion when he was giving his statement he was not able to read back his statement, and see if what he told the officers was the exact thing written on the paper that was in front of him.The Magistrate went on to tell the court that everything that came out of the statement is questionable because the VC cannot read.The magistrate concluded by saying “I do believe that something did happen. I do think that he was robbed and due to the fact that an identification parade was not done and there were other irregularities in the case, a prima facie case was not made out and the matter is dismissed”.It was alleged that on July 25, at Timehri, East Bank Demerara, the accused robbed Sherwin Noel of five penny weight of raw gold valued $55,000. It was also alleged that on July 25, at the same location, they robbed Heeralall Girdhari of four penny weight of raw gold valued $44,000. They were also accused of robbing Euri Samuels of six pennyweight of raw gold valued $66,000. |
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