Latest update March 21st, 2025 5:03 AM
Firemen beat suspected hose thief
Forty-year-old Brian Williams, of 20 Hill Street Albouystown received a severe beating allegedly at the hands of a group of firemen from the West Ruimveldt and Central Fire Station yesterday afternoon.
Williams received a chop to the right hand, major laceration to the ear and suspected broken ribs, allegedly after being accused of stealing a hose from the fire station.
Brian Williams
According to the badly beaten man who is a patient at the Georgetown Hospital, around 13:00 hrs yesterday he went to the West Ruimveldt Fire Station enquiring about a friend who works there.
“I went there to find out if meh friend Dexter working and they said no”. But Williams said that he was attempting to leave the yard when another fireman said that he had stolen a hose.
“He tell me that I does always thief de hose so he gon mek they teach me a lesson,” Williams explained.
The patient said that he started to plead with the firemen, telling them that they were mistaken. He said that they started to beat him with pieces of wood, which was in the fire station compound.
Williams alleged that he fainted about three times as a result of the beating, but the firemen threw water on him to revive him.
“I get blackout about three times and these men just throw water on me like is a dog they beating”.
Williams said that after he was beaten at the West Ruimveldt Fire Station the firemen took him to the Central Fire Station where firemen there also beat him.
“They carry me deh and them firemen beat too, in all was like about ten of them beating me with wood, belts and all sorts of things”.
He said that one of them even pinched his ear with a pair of pliers and told him “that he must hear when people seh that you should not steal”.
Williams said he could identify the firefighters.
“I know de one who pluck meh ears because he got a big cut in he face so he cant’ hide”. Kaieteur News understands that the firefighters eventually attempted to take Williams to the East Ruimveldt Outpost but ranks there refused to accept him because of his condition.
He was eventually taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where tempers flared between Senior Fire Service Officers and the Guyana Police Force. After arriving at the hospital the two firemen who took Williams were told that they needed to give a written statement.
They reportedly refused and quickly contacted their superior officers, who, in the presence of Kaieteur News, began to hurl abuses at a Senior Police Officer.
The fire officers also instructed their ranks not to submit a statement.
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