Cops question two youths about Linden 'kidnapping'

Cops question two youths about Linden ‘kidnapping’

Oct 26, 2010 News

– ‘victim’ being monitored at city hospital

Police have detained two young men from Blue Berry Hill, Wismar, as they seek to verify claims by 16-year-old Alicia McAllister that she was abducted by a group of men on Saturday.
A police official confirmed that Alicia McAllister is being monitored at a city hospital. She has provided police with a statement.
Kaieteur News understands that the youths, who are in their teens, were picked up yesterday and are being detained at the Mackenzie Police Station.
Sources said that one of the youths is a former student of Wisburg Secondary School, which the alleged victim attends.
According to sources, the detained youths have confirmed that they know McAllister, but denied abducting her. The schoolgirl has not indicated that she knows any of her alleged kidnappers
Sources say that the police are also trying to contact an elder brother of one of the youths. Police have received information that suggests that the brother is a close friend of the alleged victim. However, the young man’s relatives allege that he has been in the interior since last Thursday.
According to police sources, the teen has given investigators conflicting stories about her alleged ordeal.
“We are still checking her story….we are checking every lead that we pick up.”
Despite continuing their search yesterday, police have been unable to locate the house where McAllister claimed the kidnappers had kept her and two other girls, before freeing her on Sunday. McAllister had claimed that one of the girls was called ‘Precious’ and was from the East Coast of Demerara.
However, police officials said that they have no reports about any missing females.
According to reports, Alicia had gone to church on Saturday evening to rehearse for a church event.
Her father, Neil McAllister, said that after the practice session, Alicia told her sister that she was going to a nearby internet cafe to complete some school assignments.
However, Neil McAllister said that he found that strange, as the entire area was in blackout. Power was not restored on the Wismar shore until about midnight.
Mr. McAllister said he became worried after his daughter failed to return home by 22:00 hrs. He subsequently made a report to the Wisroc Police Station, but was told that he had to wait for 48 hours before filing a missing person’s report.
Alicia later sent a text message to her family indicating that she had been kidnapped while on her way to the internet cafe. She alleged that she was forced into a yellow bus and taken to a two storey building with no windows.
According to the text message, there were ten men and two other girls in the house.
Through other text messages to family and friends, Alicia stated that the men were drinking, and one of them even suggested to the others, to ‘bring some more girls.’
During all this she further stated that one of the girls that was lying next to her appeared to be dead.
She would later send another text where she declared, ”they gone and bury the girl’- and then, ‘they coming back!” There was no further communication after that.
The teen’s disappearance triggered a massive search by police ranks from Linden and Georgetown. Civilians also aided the police ranks to scour the Wisroc backlands and its environs for the missing girl and her ‘kidnappers.’
Eventually at around 18:00 hrs on Sunday, Alicia she was found bound, disheveled but alive, on a roadway near Block 22 Wismar.
Police said she was bound hand and foot with polythene twine. Sources who saw the teen said that she appeared to be traumatised and disoriented.
The schoolgirl alleged that her captors eventually dropped her off at the Wisroc location where she was found. While there are several houses in the area, police said that no one apparently saw when the ‘kidnappers’ released McAllister.
The teen had her schoolbag and books in her possession when she was found.