Cops fail to return $1.8M, jewelry to robbery victim

Nov 21, 2009 News

Seven years later…

Almost seven years after identifying his jewellery and a $700,000 watch at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, a robbery victim is yet to have his property. The man was robbed at his Bagotstown home of $1.8 M in cash, $300,000 in jewellery and a Rolex watch valued $700,000.
Sixty-year-old Farouk Ahmad Hussein was attacked and severely beaten and shot by gunmen on September 2002. The police caught three of the four men, shot one dead and recovered the stolen items.
However, to date despite identifying his items to the police, Hussein is yet to receive same. Hussein told this newspaper that since the investigation he was told that none of the money was recovered.
Following the robbery Hussein was hospitalised but he subsequently identified his attackers and all of his jewellery stolen as well as the watch.
The three men were charged and placed before the courts.
Hussein said that he tried his best to be present in court at all times during the trial.
He noted that the investigating officer however never showed up to offer evidence nor tender any of his items as evidence in court.
As a result, the then Magistrate at the Providence Magistrates’ Court Adrian Thompson had no other alternative but to have the matter discharged for lack of evidence.
Now seven years after the man who is now handicapped as a result of the beating he sustained at the hands of the bandits is still to receive his items from the police.
The man said he has tried relentlessly to get his items back but to no avail. Hussein said he has had his lawyer, Mortimer Coddett, pen a letter to the Commissioner of Police but that too has since proved futile.

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