POLICE Commissioner, Leroy Brumell, updating the media yesterday on the progress of the probe in which a 16-year-old boy had allegedly been sodomised by three policemen stationed at the Stabroek Market Outpost on January 28 last, said the file is with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice and direction.Brumell added that the ranks fingered are still under open arrest, and are at Force headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown, pending the outcome of the matter.

Even though the complainant failed to pinpoint the cops during an identification parade facilitated by the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the matter engaged the media and a cross section of citizens after the youth took to the rooftops of the Stabroek News and Police Consumers Co-op buildings on Robb Street last week to protest the actions of the ranks.

The report, received on January 28, said that at about 21:00 hrs on January 26, the police trio took a 16-year-old into the Mobile Outpost at Stabroek Market area and sodomised him.

It was reported that the teen had done a stint at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast, and was frequenting the usual hangout spots of commercial sex workers in the city.

In November 2013, while in custody for break and enter and larceny at Timehri Police Station, East Bank of Demerara, Colwyn Harding also alleged being brutally beaten and sodomised by a rank using a condom-covered baton.

He has gone to Jamaica to be further medically examined and attended, after being discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following a surgical operation for a strangulated hernia.
Written By Michel Outridge