| Four months after they shot a mentally challenged man at Strathavon,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, two policemen will face the court for Manslaughter.Constable Elvis JonesCrime Chief Wendell Blanhum,Clearance Hockey Jerseys, yesterday, confirmed that the file on the matter was returned by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the advice to charge the two cops with Manslaughter.Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Cecil Kennard, had earlier recommended that the ranks be charged with murder, however the DPP did not concur with Kennard.The two police Constables, Elvis Jones and Marlon Cruickshank, are likely to appear in court as early as tomorrow.The two cops, who were attached to the Cane Grove Police Outpost, are still under open arrest.It is alleged that on July 4, last, the ranks shot and killed 30-year-old Junior Gulliver at Strathavon, Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara.The ranks had opened fire on Gulliver, when they responded to reports that he was threatening villagers.The ranks are maintaining that they were attacked by Gulliver, who was armed with a cutlass. They said that they resorted to the use of force. However, relatives and neighbours of the dead man have maintained that the cops murdered an unarmed person.On the day in question,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, the police first responded to a report that Gulliver was threatening persons in the village.Upon arrival at the scene, the policemen, who were unarmed, came under attack from Gulliver, who had a cutlass, and they had to hastily retreat. In the process the vehicle they came in was damaged by Gulliver, who had struck the window with his cutlass.The ranks went back to the station,China Jerseys Free Shipping, and after receiving another report that Gulliver was still acting in a threatening manner, they armed themselves and returned to the area to confront him.Eyewitnesses said that Gulliver, aware that the police had returned with guns, went into hiding.After a while, when he felt that the ranks had left the area, Gulliver emerged from his hiding place and went into his shack.The two armed ranks subsequently emerged and confronted Gulliver and shot him.A post mortem examination performed on Gulliver’s body by Dr. Nehaul Singh revealed that he was shot twice, from two different calibre weapons, the larger of which inflicted the fatal wound.The Post Mortem found that Gulliver died from perforation of the lung and spinal gunshot injury.According to a police source,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, the fatal bullet which was fired from a rifle, passed through his lungs and spine from the front of his body. The other bullet, fired from a smaller calibre weapon,Andreas Christensen Jersey, struck his left shoulder, causing minimal damage.The news of the charge was not taken too well by the two ranks in question, who have a total of 30 years service.They both were wounded in the line of duty, having faced death on separate occasions during the dreaded crime wave of 2002 to 2008, while they were stationed on East Coast Demerara.Cruickshank received 17 pellet wounds from a shotgun fired at close range when his patrol unit was ambushed by gunmen at Coldingen in May 2002. One of his colleagues was killed during that attack. Constable Cruickshank sustained a partially paralysed right hand.In 2005 Constable Jones was wounded when gunmen in Buxton opened fire on his patrol unit.“I have served the Guyana Police Force for so many years without a charge and was never promoted; this is the thanks I get,Cheap NFL Jerseys,” said Jones, who maintained that he was just protecting himself and his colleague from a violent mentally ill man.He reminded that last year he was responsible for the apprehension of a murder suspect who had been on the run for 10 years.He stated that he is willing to face the court to prove that he did not act in a reckless manner.“I feel it because a man lost his life but if we could have done anything better we would have,” Jones stated. |
