Police failed to respond to ailing man’s plight

Oct 09, 2009 News

…victim dies on the street

The man who was found on the Coldingen Public Road has died. He has been identified as 65-year-old Jaikaran of 22 Marshan Street, Annandale.
According to relatives the man was never taken to the hospital, but was instead picked up by the Lyken’s Funeral Home hearse from where he was discovered Tuesday morning.
He was found by a police patrol around 7:00am Tuesday, on the Coldingen Public Road.
According to reports the man was spotted on the road Monday night.
A concerned citizen called Kaieteur News and related that on the way home, he had spotted the man lying at the side of the road and that he seemed to be unconscious.
The concerned citizen called home and told a relative to notify the Vigilance Police Station.
A call was made to 911 instead, and a female dispatcher answered; the message was relayed and the relative was reassured that the message would be passed onto the Vigilance Police, as it was closest to the collapsed man.
That was around 10:30 on Monday evening.
The next day the concerned citizen was passing the same area and saw a large crowd, but made no investigations.
It was as the concerned citizen was passing back some time later to go home that he saw the police and the man’s body.
An enquiry was made as to whether the police had only just decided to remove the man from the road. The police informed the concerned citizen that they had only just found the man laying there on the Coldingen Public Road.
According to the man’s relatives, they too were told that the man was lying on the road since earlier that morning (around 4:00am) surrounded by police.
Other reports state that when the police discovered the body, the man was still alive (breathing), but that he passed away by the time the ambulance arrived to take him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Further reports from family members state that the man had never gone to the GPHC, but was instead picked up by the Lyken’s Funeral Home hearse and transferred there.
When family members visited the funeral home, employees there refused to let them near the man’s body, and told the dead man’s relatives that they had to pay $10,000 before they could get to view the body. The funeral home has denied this allegation.
Kaieteur News understands that Jaikaran, also known as ‘Spiker’, was in the habit of drinking “heavy alcohol.”
“He would usually mix he drinks (alcohol) and drink straight…..no water or anything” was one relatives’ recollection.
Kaieteur News was informed that the grandfather of nine was a carpenter, and would drink everyday, stop for a few months and then resume his practice when he got paid.
Family members told Kaieteur News reporters that Jaikaran left his home drunk around 1:30 Monday afternoon, and was never seen again, until residents of the area informed them that his body was seen on the Coldingen Public Road.
The post-mortem is expected to be completed today, but sources close to the investigation informed Kaieteur News that the man had a laceration at the back of the head, and that he may have succumbed to liver ailments due to his constant consumption of alcohol.
Jaikaran leaves to mourn his wife, Leela Jaikaran, who was expected to be in the country last night; three sons and daughters-in-law and nine grandchildren.

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