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Police refute battered woman’s claims

Oct 20, 2008 News

The Guyana Police Force has refuted claims by an abused Lethem woman that the law enforcement agency refused to respond to her desperate calls for help.

The woman made the claims in an article carried in this newspaper on Saturday under the caption “Lethem housewife hospitalized after brutal beating.”

The article had stated that the victim, Marian D’Aguiar, had said on Thursday night last that she called the police four times and they did not go to her rescue.  But, according to the police, the woman’s claims are far from the truth.

In a statement issued yesterday, the police said that, at about 23:30 hours on Thursday, the ranks at the Lethem Police Station received a phone call from Marian D’Aguiar, who reported that she had an altercation with her reputed husband who had assaulted her. Acting on this report, a rank was dispatched to the scene.

A short while later, Marian D’Aguiar again called the police and repeated her report, and she was informed that a rank was already on his way.

However, a second rank was dispatched in view of the urgent-sounding nature of the second call from the woman.

The police said that when the first rank arrived at the scene, D’Aguiar’s reputed husband was not seen, as he had apparently left the home, and the rank proceeded to escort the injured victim to the Lethem Hospital.

During the initial investigations, she told the rank that she had hit her reputed husband with a boot and he had hit her in return with a money bag which had a padlock on it.

Meanwhile, the second rank that had been dispatched encountered the reputed husband along the roadway and arrested him.

The reputed husband stated that he and his wife had a misunderstanding after he arrived home late that night, and that she had hit him with a boot, resulting in him striking her with a money bag which he had in his possession at the time.

He was taken into custody at the Lethem Police Station. On the following day, Marian D’Aguiar was discharged from the hospital and her reputed husband was subsequently placed on cash bail.

Statements have been taken in the matter, and the police are continuing their investigations with a view to placing it before the court, the release said.

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