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Family laments targeting of ex convict by police
“In this country, once you do a crime some time back, you are targeted.”
Maybe it’s his criminal past now returning to haunt him, but relatives of Randy Morris believe that he is being unnecessarily targeted by the police, especially since he reportedly refused to co-operate with a cop the family described as corrupt.
According to family members, Morris has become the usual suspect for the police whenever an armed robbery was committed, whether in the city or in far flung areas.
Even if he is in police custody, the police still expect him to know who the perpetrators are.
His family members are so fed up with the police harassment that they have decided to speak out, especially since Morris was again arrested by police on Monday night.
And this time he was placed on two identification parades, one in the city and the other at Linden. According to relatives he was not picked out in any of them.
His latest arrest has not gone down well, his relatives especially his girlfriend, Kenola Adams, who has the arduous task of running around from police station to police station to provide meals for him.
She told this newspaper that on Monday night she and Morris left their home to attend the Tanya Stephens show at the National Park.
As they were about to enter the park, a policeman stopped them and told Morris that he was wanted in connection with a robbery.
“The policeman (name given) said, ‘Look Randy Morris. De boss man want you.’ Randy asked him for what and he say robbery,” an obviously frustrated Adams told this newspaper.
Morris was bundled into a vehicle and hauled off to the Brickdam Police Station, despite Adams’s protestations.
“I tell them that they seeing Randy all the time and how come all of a sudden he wanted for a robbery,” she stated.
She subsequently made her way to the Brickdam Police Station where she was told to return the following day, that Morris was being booked for armed robbery.
According to Adams, the police did not say which robbery Morris was wanted for.
Adams said that the following day, Morris informed her that he was placed on an identification parade but was not picked out as a suspect.
But the police still did not release him. Instead, unknown to Adams and Morris’s lawyer, they took him to Linden where he was again placed on another identification parade.
It was not until Morris’ attorney began raising questions that the police informed him of their plans for the ex-convict.
“They say they carrying he to Linden to put he on some ID parade for some murder,” Adams told Kaieteur News.
Again Morris was not picked out and up to yesterday, he was still in custody.
Randy Morris
Adams admitted that Morris had previous brushes with the law, even being linked to the execution style killing of his friend, Vibert Weekes’ murder.
She said that he was previously arrested and during his time in custody he was accused of knowing about a firearm that was lost by a policeman.
“They asked him who got the police gun and that if he tell them, they gone loose he. He had to tell them that he in jail and how he gone know who got police gun.”
“In this country, once you do a crime some time back, you are targeted,” Adams said.
Other family members believe that Morris is being targeted because of a falling out with a police officer whom they accused of previously benefitting from Morris’s criminal activities.
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