UP to last evening, UK-based Glendon Cadogan, 83, was said to be stable in an Intensive Care Unit nursing gunshot wounds which he received yesterday just after arriving at his sister’s Shirley Field Ridley Square home in a taxi from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, with a locally-based female companion, said to be in her 40s.

According to information reaching the Guyana Chronicle, the man, who has lived in the United Kingdom for more than two decades, was shot after he exited a taxi and was about to greet his 70-year-old sister, Gloria David, who was anticipating his arrival and had even cooked special meals which he requested.

The Guyana Chronicle was told that after the man was shot, the gunmen snatched a black carry-on bag that he had in his possession but they left his other two pieces of luggage.
Speaking with the media yesterday afternoon at her lot 10 Shirley Field Ridley Square home, the woman explained that she was inside her house when the taxi with the woman and her brother showed up. She said she was going to greet him at the gate, but turned back and went into the house to get something when she heard gunshots.
Immediately, her neighbour began screaming, telling her not to come out as her brother was being shot. David said she peered out the window and saw her brother clutching his chest while she heard the continuous hollering from his female partner who was seated in the back seat of the vehicle.
Reporters were told that the shooters were waiting for the man to show up from the airport as they saw the getaway car in the area prior to the man’s arrival in the airport taxi. After the man was shot, a taxi from the community rushed to the scene and assisted them to take him to the hospital as the police were summoned and they arrived within ten minutes, according to the woman.
David added that her brother seems to be out of danger as he was resting in the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital following surgery, even as his eyes remained closed.
Asked about the advice she would be giving her brother should he pull through and is discharged, the woman swiftly said that she already plans to instruct her brother to get back to England and never return to Guyana.
She told reporters that her brother only recently bought a house in one of the new housing schemes in Eccles which he is yet to move into. She is of the view that her brother might have had plans to return to this country to live. The father of five lost his wife in January this year when she passed away in the United Kingdom.
Asked about the female companion the man showed up with and if they feel that she had anything to do with his attack, one relative responded in the positive.
Meanwhile, family members are not of the view that airport staff had passed on any information to the bandits about where the man was going upon his arrival as he reportedly offered them an incorrect address given the recent robberies committed on persons returning to this country.
Up to late yesterday the female companion who works as a security guard at a distribution company was still in police custody assisting with the investigations.
The woman had caught a minibus and travelled to the airport to receive the man and used the airport taxi to return to the city upon his arrival.
Up to late yesterday afternoon, there were still traces of blood stains from the wounds the pensioner sustained as well as shattered glass from the taxi which he arrived in. There were also family members who kept pouring into the yard to offer words of comfort to the man’s children and his sister as they prayed for his recovery.

By Leroy Smith