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Probe into prisoner’s death over

Aug 07, 2008 News

The police have completed the file in relation to the death of prison inmate Edwin Niles, who is suspected to have been tortured.

This newspaper understands that the file will be submitted to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The police declined to say whether any of the perpetrators who tortured Niles has been identified.

The police have reportedly collected statements from high-ranking and junior staffers from the Georgetown Prisons, as well as from army ranks who were reportedly present on July 3 when Niles was interrogated.

There are reports that Niles had given police ranks who took him to the hospital the names of two prison officers who tortured him.

But during his stay at the hospital, no police rank questioned Niles to ascertain who inflicted the injuries on him.

And while he was under guard at the hospital, even Niles’s relatives were not allowed to speak to him. Only the prisoner’s reputed wife was allowed to see him briefly, shortly after his admission.

Police officials said that when their ranks arrived at the Georgetown Prisons, several army and Prison officers were with the prisoner.

They allege that Niles appeared to have been beaten and there were burns on his back and buttocks.

The officials allege that they took the injured prisoner to the Brickdam Police Station, then took him to the Georgetown Hospital because of his injuries. Niles succumbed from his injuries on July 11.

The prisoner was questioned on July 3 after he was allegedly found with seven .22 rounds of ammunition.

The ammunition was in a pair of discarded army trousers which the inmate had taken from a building after he and other inmates were sent to work at Camp Ayanganna.

Kaieteur News was told that Niles had asked for the trousers but was told he could not have them.
However, the prisoner reportedly stole the garment when he and the other inmates were left unsupervised for a few minutes.

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