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Shot man says police are ignoring him
Wayne Thomas
Almost three weeks after he was accidentally shot by the police, 25-year-old Wayne Thomas, of 113 George and Bent Streets, Werk-en-Rust, is alleging that his matter is being swept under the carpet.
On Monday last, Thomas told this newspaper that no high ranking police official has given him any word about compensation, or if any disciplinary action would be taken against the rank.
Thomas described his treatment as the “royal runaround” since all the police officials he has dealt with have seemed uncaring about his plight.
He explained that he was advised by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Thomas said that someone at the Ministry sent him to the Brickdam Police Station.
“I visited the Ministry, then the Brickdam Police Station, and no one seems to care about what I’m going through,” Thomas said.
He explained that he was eventually sent to the Commander of ‘A’ Division, George Vyphuis.
Thomas said that the Commander apologized for not being able to visit him in the hospital but assured him that everything would have been taken care of. He further told this publication that the Commander told him that a file has to be prepared to be sent to the Police Commissioner Henry Greene.
“He tell me that the file has to go to the commissioner…When I call he back he said that the file wasn’t prepared.”
That was several days ago. Thomas now says he has become frustrated because he cannot work as a result of the injury.
“I have two children to look after…I can’t work, I didn’t ask to get shoot…They shoot me wrongfully,” Thomas said. Efforts yesterday to contact a senior police official proved futile.
Thomas was accidentally shot when prisoner Marvin Williams, tried to escape from the Georgetown Prison after he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Thomas was shot in his lower right leg.
This newspaper was told that Williams made a dash from the prison van after the gateway was opened to allow the transfer of inmates into the prison. He ran north along Camp Street, and while turning into Bent Street, he was shot twice by police.
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