Police to seek legal advice

–on alleged standoff with bandits on G’town Seawall

WITH speculation still rife as to what really transpired at the Georgetown Seawall on March 15,2018, that left three suspected bandits dead, the police on Friday confirmed that a report has been completed and submitted to the relevant authorites for legal advice.

According to reports, on March 15, Dextroy Cordis, Kwame Assanah, and Errol Adams were shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with undercover cops who had tailed them to the seawall where they were about to rob the customer of a city bank after trailing him there.
At the time, the undercover cops were reportedly monitoring several banks in the city as part of a sting operation aimed at arresting the increase in cases of persons being trailed and robbed after visiting commercial banks.

The police claimed that they came under fire when they confronted the suspects and it was in self-defence that they returned fire, killing all three men.
But an alleged eyewitness who was reportedly working nearby is refuting the police’s version of what transpired and has accused the lawmen of executing the trio.
He has also retained prominent city lawyer, Mr Nigel Hughes, who’d accompanied him to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters to submit a statement to Crime Chief Paul Williams.

He was asked to return to be interviewed by senior detectives, but never did, as according to his lawyer, he had needed another 24 hours to sort out some issues.

While the men’s families have been calling for justice, saying that the men were murdered by the Police, acting Top Cop David Ramnarine has since thrown his support behind his ranks, claiming that the killings were justified.
Cordis and Adams were known to the police, but family members insist that Assanah was not a bandit.

Law enforcement officials described the shooting as resulting from increased surveillance in response to the recent spate of robberies committed on customers after they had conducted financial transactions at various commercial banks.

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