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Twice beaten man seeks justice
The injured Nigel Lawson
A 40-year-old man says he is seeking justice after he was badly beaten by a group of men who he claimed wrongly accused him of stealing a wallet.
Nigel Lawson, of Camp Street, Cummingsburg, alleged that he was dragged into a Waterloo Street yard on Sunday and beaten into unconsciousness with a heavy chain. The attack left him hospitalised with a broken right leg, broken fingers and other injuries.
Lawson identified the main assailant as a deportee and said that he can also identify the other men.
But Lawson and his sister, Yvette Lawson, claim that police are yet to arrest the men.
Lawson told Kaieteur News that his problems began last Thursday night, when he went to a Waterloo Street internet cafe to make a call.
However, Lawson said that when he entered the establishment, a manager told him that he did not have enough money to make the call.
Lawson said that he was leaving the premises when a relative of the owner accosted him. “He said ‘the money that you just find, bring it back.’” He said this was in relation to the theft of a wallet.
Although he denied knowing about the theft, Lawson alleged that an individual known as ‘Sick man’ threatened him with a cutlass and then called the man whose wallet had been stolen.
He said that the two men, accompanied by a third, dragged him into a Waterloo Street yard, where he was punched and broadsided with a cutlass until he fainted.
According to Lawson, the men then took him to the ‘Globe Yard’, and questioned a resident who confirmed that Lawson had bought $200 in ‘weed’. This, Lawson said, showed he only had a few dollars in his possession and had not stolen the wallet.
The beaten man said that his attackers then let him go.
But on Sunday, Lawson reportedly made the mistake of going back to the same area in Waterloo Street.
This time, he alleged that a deportee who lives nearby again accused him of stealing the wallet.
A tearful Lawson claimed that the man and others dragged him into the same Waterloo Street yard that he was taken to last Thursday.
According to the alleged victim, the deportee began to beat him with a heavy chain, breaking some of his fingers and his right leg in the process.
His sister, Yvette Lawson, told Kaieteur News that someone informed her of his brother’s plight.
The woman said that when she arrived at the scene, she found her brother lying in a pool of blood in the Waterloo Street yard.
She then took him to the GPHC, where he was admitted. Kaieteur News observed dried blood in the yard, while accompanying the beaten man’s sister to the area yesterday.
The woman also pointed out one of the men who allegedly attacked her brother.
But Ms. Lawson claimed that although she made a report at the Brickdam Police Station, police have not taken a statement from her brother.
“I want justice,” she said. “I need justice.”
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