Arrested schoolboys say ‘victim’ is the ‘culprit’

Nov 26, 2010 News

The three schoolboys who were taken into custody by police and featured on this newspaper’s front page of the Kaieteur News yesterday for an alleged snatch-and-run have told the police that the boy who is saying he is the victim, is the actual culprit. The latter was also taken into custody.
According to one of the boys the other boy would frequent the school. He must live close by, they said, because he would visit barefooted sometimes.
One of the three said that the young man came to the school on Wednesday and showed him a huge gold band and told him that he wanted them to go at Stabroek Market to sell it.
The schoolboy insists that when school was over on Wednesday he, the alleged victim, and another two of his school friends made their way to the Stabroek Market to make the sale.
The schoolboy said that one individual made an offer of $95,000. Another huckster made an offer of $100,000 and at this point in time the schoolboy said that the young man apparently changed his mind and told the men that the boys had robbed him.
The men called out to the nearby police and the schoolboys said that they ran because when they saw the police coming they became afraid.
The alleged victim told the police that the boys robbed him and fled in a minibus and that he chased after them in another minibus.
He said that he saw them at the Stabroek Market area attempting to make the sale and he told the men that the boys had robbed him and the alarm was raised.
His mother told police that the band belonged to her brother who worked at Demerara Distillers Limited but up to 11:30 that night, this brother was yet to show up to identify the band. The woman subsequently told the police that her brother was in the interior and that she had the band to keep.
The schoolboys had to report to the police station yesterday morning but the ranks there said that they should go to school.
Upon arrival at the school the boys were refused the opportunity to stay. Their parents were told to take them to the Schools’ Welfare Department.
At the welfare office the parents were told that the boys had to stay at home until the police complete their investigation.
Each of the four boys was released on $5,000 station bail.
This newspaper understands that the mother of the alleged victim yesterday requested until Wednesday to have somebody come and identify the band.

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