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Shot Toshao says men could have been caught
Wilbert Hall, the 56-year-old Toshao, of Malali who was shot, and relieved of close to $1million and important personal documents including some from the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, has said that if it weren’t for the complacency of the police, the bandits could have been caught at the Millie’s hideout road block, while they were escaping to Georgetown.
Ironically, Hall’s taxi was searched at the very road block minutes earlier.
Wilfred Hall
The man who is now a patient at the Linden Hospital complex yesterday related, “I was on my way from Georgetown where I had taken my wife to the hospital (she is also hospitalisd).
“I had conducted other business on behalf of my villagers. We were stopped at the Millie’s Hideout roadblock and the car was searched, including the trunk. Now if the police had exercised the same diligence, those two bandits could have been apprehended.
“I find it really strange that innocent and decent people were stopped and searched, while the bandits passed scot free.”
Hall said the money he had on him did not belong to him, but to the villagers as he had sold some greenheart piles for them, and was taking the money to give them.
He said that he had gone into the restaurant upon the urging of a friend, who offered to buy him a Malta. Hall said that while conversing with his friend, he saw the bandit enter the restaurant, but he did not pay him any mind, as he thought the man was a regular customer.
He was therefore shocked when the man came up suddenly and snatched his bag. Hall said a scuffle then ensued, but he was unable to retrieve the bag, as the man shot him.
The bandit then escaped on a motorcycle with a waiting accomplice. The injured man who was shot once and not three times as was previously reported, is now calling on the police to set up regular patrols in the vicinity of the Coop Crescent.
This area is usually busy especially at weekends when persons from the riverain communities visit Linden to conduct business.
Hall is of the opinion that if the police do not patrol the area regularly more persons would be robbed. Bandits lurk there.
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