– She is a known felon and a proven bully
THE KAIETEUR News of July 28, 2011 carried a news feature about one Denise Hilliman who is representing herself as a victim. Instead, the following reprinted article would show that Denise Hilliman is a criminal and a bully who squats on other person’s properties, and government reserves, and then bullies her way into owning it eventually. The real victim in the story below is single mother, Lucille Van Doimen, who was bullied out of her home by Hilliman, who is not homeless as she claims, because she owns several properties that she has robbed other persons of.
Lucille Van Doimen is Chronicle’s very ladylike librarian who was bullied out of her home by Hilliman and remains homeless until today, while Denise Hilliman owns several properties through squatting or bullying helpless persons.
She has a long criminal record, and even after this story was published, she was in the news several times for a series of criminal activities. She bullied Lucille out of her home and still occupies it; or she has probably rented it out.

Justice for Lucille, please
By Parvati Persaud-Edwards
(First published Sunday  April 25,  2010)
CHRISTOPHER Van Doimen was a rare gem of manhood, in that he was a loving and caring husband and father, and a decent human being.  He and his wife, Lucille, lived in rented premises with their four daughters and Chris’s son from a previous relationship, also named Christopher, dreaming of a day when they would move into a home of their own.
The government’s housing drive made that dream seem achievable when they were allocated a house-lot by the Ministry of Housing, and the couple worked hard towards the realization of that dream.  Christopher worked as a sailor on a Windjammer cruise liner, which had a six-month work/vacation rotation system, while Lucille was employed as Assistant Librarian at the Guyana National Newspapers Ltd.  Not wanting to go into debt, the couple had begun construction of their home, planning to build bit by bit as their resources allowed, until their house was completed.
Every time Christopher was on his six-month vacation, he would either find work as an electrician or a mechanic, or a job where both skills were needed.  While saving for his dream home, he had no intention of depriving his beloved family of any of the necessities of life. He was planning for the future of his family, but also adequately supporting their present.
Until one fateful evening when that dream was shattered, along with the lives of members of the little family, when a lorry crushed Chris to death in the wee hours of a Saturday morning approximately four years ago.
Dennis Jones had employed Chris on a Telecoms contract. On the fateful night, as Jones was returning from Linden in a truck laden with scrap metal, the truck broke down and Jones hitched a ride to Georgetown, where he picked up Chris in his car before returning to his truck on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, reaching the site nearing midnight.  With the headlights of the car directed to the engine, Chris was attempting to repair the truck when a lorry, contracted to transport soldiers, careened into the back of the stationary truck, slammed into Chris, crushing his head in the process, then dragged the car and Chris for yards before vegetation halted its progress.
The driver had made a round trip from Georgetown to Tacama and back in one day, and it was speculated that he fell asleep at the wheel from fatigue.
Undertaking such a long and tiresome journey without an alternate driver is just as irresponsible as drinking and driving, but on Friday April 16 this year, the driver who caused the death of Christopher Van Doimen was freed on a no-case submission. The magistrate had ruled that there was not enough evidence to convict him on the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.  It had taken Lucille eight long months of battling the system before the driver was charged in the first place.  Lucille said that the magistrate’s ruling was like a knife thrust into her heart, reopening her wounds once more.  The driver never considered the wasteland he had created in the lives of that family when he deprived them of their husband and father, leaving them bereft of financial and other support, because he never reached out to them with help or sympathy, although he has no pecuniary constraints.
The tragic loss of her husband left Lucille to cope alone with their children, and the rental every month eats deeply into their drastically reduced monthly budget, so Lucille tried to continue to build their home, albeit with an enforced deceleration of construction.
Because of constant theft of her materials and roaming cattle, she borrowed money from the CCWU and built a fence around her property subsequent to the death of her husband.  When she returned a couple of weeks later, her fencing materials had been removed and stolen.  Investigations led to the discovery that the thief was a known felon named Denise Hilliman.
With the help of a senior media operative, Lucille reported the theft and provided the name of the suspect to one Inspector Baird of the East La Penitence Police Station.  Although Hilliman admitted to committing the theft, Inspector Baird took no action, so Lucille went to the Asst. DPP, Ms Raphael, who instructed the inspector to charge Hilliman, in Lucille’s presence, but he never did.
Because of her severely constrained finances, Lucille was forced to discontinue building until she had saved enough to add to the infrastructure she had built with her husband.
On September 25, 2008 she received a call to the effect that Hilliman had just secretively commenced building on the structure of her (Lucille’s) house.  When she was ordered to stop by the police because she was trespassing on Lucille’s property, she became abusive, defying the police to do their worst, and the police withdrew without taking any action to eject her.
Despite a restraining order that Lucille had obtained, Hilliman evaded the injunction, rejecting the court order without any consequences, and refused to stop building.  Upon completion of a part of the building, she moved in and has been living there since then, while Lucille and her children remain homeless.
The Van Doimens had already received their transport from the Ministry of Housing, so Lucille had to seek redress from the courts.  Already in dire financial straits, with her children to support and educate single-handedly, Lucille had to take the money she was saving to complete her home and pay legal costs.  While a felon is enjoying the peace of what should have been Lucille’s home, the latter is still occupying rented premises, which she has to vacate soon.
Lucille is in possession of all the documentation to her property – the transport to the land, her water service connection contract with GS&WC, which is dated November 18, 2004, her permission to build from the City Engineer’s Department, plus bills for the construction work that she had already done on the property.  That costing would have appreciated in accordance with the current steep appreciation of prices for construction materials and labour costs.
Denise Hilliman has a long police record.  Most notable of her alleged legal transgressions, which were given wide media coverage, was the theft of over $560,000 from a clerk of Muneshwar’s Travel Service office in Georgetown; scalding and incapacitating her much younger lover of two months with boiling hot oil because he wanted to leave her; holding up a woman at gunpoint in Church Street and robbing her of $2,500; robbing Gizmos and Gadgets at gunpoint; and the list goes on.
On the other hand, Lucille is a quiet, ladylike, much-liked and respected librarian at the Guyana Chronicle, who uncomplainingly bears her travails in the face of much injustice perpetrated against her and her fatherless children.
Her daughters Tash, Christal, Anis, and little Sohai, who was just six years old when her dad died, still mourn the loss of their loving and much-beloved father. They were inconsolable when they were told that their dad would no longer come home and Tash, who was days away from writing her CXC exams when the tragedy occurred, wrote the following:

Why do people die?
Why did my dad die?
Did he choose to leave us?
He left without a goodbye
Despite this feeling of grief
We miss you, ‘cause love never dies
We’re always sad, and sometimes angry
Knowing that we’ve lost you forever
A great man, a loving father
We miss you so much, we wish you were here
Now, we are lonely, but there is hope
We know God is standing by
We are depending on Him at every moment
To keep us safe and be our comforter
Maybe months and years after we would still be sad
But on that glorious day we would meet
What a joyful time that would be
In that place that God has provided for us
God is good and his mercy endureth forever
We love you dad

The children remain true to their father’s memory, in that they are pursuing his dreams of establishing themselves in various professional fields.  Tash is currently at the University of Guyana working toward acquiring a degree in International Relations.
Denise Hilliman flouted the law in so many ways, at so many times, because she coveted Lucille’s bona fide property, and she was allowed to get away with all her criminal activities. She removed Lucille’s fence, which is destruction to property; she stole Lucille’s fencing materials; then, when the property was left exposed, she trespassed and began construction and, even though the police went from the time after she started, she still flouted the law and continued, without facing any consequences. She rejected a court order and, as far as I am aware, disregarding an injunction earns one jail time, but again, this woman faced no consequences for her actions.
Lucille, on the other hand, who stayed within the confines of the law and sought justice through the proper and legal channels, has been deprived of all her rights. That home is a mark of the dreams she and her husband shared. Why was she deprived of it while the law allowed a felon to systematically challenge every legal avenue that presupposes justice for the law-abiding citizen and comfortably ensconce herself in Lucille’s last joint initiative with her now-dead husband?
And what about the driver who precipitated the chain of circumstances that took a breadwinner and a loving father away from his minor children?  His conscience did not lead him to offer assistance to that family, not even to query about their welfare, but the law seems to be, in the estimation of famous author Charles Dickens, perennially an ass. And the guardians of the law?  Well, judging from Lucille’s experiences, and that of many vulnerable persons in the society, C.N. Sharma seems to be the only person in Guyana who can deliver Justice for All.