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

Dec 22, 2009 News

– investigating ranks being questioned seven years later

The ranks who were investigating a Bagotstown robbery some seven years ago are now being questioned about the booty recovered after the robbery victim reported that he is yet to receive his belongings.
Speaking to this newspaper 60-year-old Farouk Hussein said the investigation is moving at snail’s pace as since he was visited by a rank some two weeks ago to date all he has been told is that ranks whom he had names as those who were carrying out the investigation are now being questioned.
According to Hussein the rank who initially visited his home has been very cooperative in that he keep him abreast with the developments but still he is unable to get back his items. Initially the man said the force informed him that they had no record of the robbery.
Sixty-year-old Farouk Ahmad Hussein was attacked and severely beaten and shot by gunmen in 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 them. 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 or tendered any of his items as evidence in court. As a result, the then Magistrate at the Providence Magistrate’s Court Adrian Thompson had no other alternative but to have the matter discharged for lack of evidence.
Now seven years later, 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.
Several letters to the Commissioner of Police on the issue had also failed to help the man retrieve the items.

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