AFTER almost a year since informant Lennox “Two Colours” Wayne gave his statement to the police in relation to the fatal shootings of Paul Bascom and Alberto Grant by police at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, on December 7, 2013, efforts are still being made to locate the documents for court. Wayne’s statement which was missing from the case file was supposed to have been brought before City Magistrate Alex Moore, who is currently conducting an inquest into the death of the two men.
At Thursday’s court proceedings, attorney Nigel Hughes, representing the families of the deceased, stressed the numerous times the court had been given to locate the missing statement.
Hughes also pointed out that Wayne, who is currently on remand at the Camp Street Prison for the murder of a Lusignan cosmetologist, has expressed his willingness to provide a new statement to the court to corroborate his testimony.
Wayne is testifying as an eyewitness to the shooting and another police shootout which occurred on October 12, 2013 near the K&VC Hotel on South Road, Georgetown. That shooting claimed the lives of three Albouystown residents.
Lennox Wayne, a self-confessed hit-man, has refuted the police versions of what had transpired on the night of the Diamond shooting.
The police had reported that their ranks had staked out the home of a trucking service operator that the men were reportedly planning to rob at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
According to the police, they challenged two men who were approaching on foot, and one of them pulled out a handgun and opened fire on the ranks. The police returned fire and fatally wounded both men.
The police said that they recovered a .38 snub-nosed revolver with two live rounds and two spent shells, along with one 9mm. round and two 7.62 x 39 rounds.
Testifying in court on Thursday was another police officer, and the matter was forced into another adjournment until April 29 for reports. So far, 12 witnesses have testified.
The Director of Public Prosecutions had ordered that an inquest be held into the deaths of Bascom, a resident of Diamond Housing Scheme; and Grant, or Alberto Mustapha, 28, called ‘Mukie’, of Lot 299 Meadow Brook Gardens. They were shot dead during an alleged 20-minute shootout with police.