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Jan 08, 2013 News
On December 15, last Anthony Biswah bade farewell to his family and left for a brief sojourn in the interior with a couple of neighbours from a notorious Albouystown family.
It was the first time in the ‘bush’ for Biswah. He was scheduled to return home after 20 days.
But the next time his relatives saw him on January 3, last, he was in the Bartica Hospital with a badly swollen face battling for his life.
A day later he succumbed, but not before he related a harrowing tale of being badly beaten by the very persons who took him into the interior.
Now his mother, Padminie Biswah, is crying out for justice, which appears to be far away, judging from the response she has been receiving from the police to whom she reported the matter.
Speaking with this newspaper yesterday, Biswah’s sister, Emily, recalled that she received a telephone call from him on December 30. She said that her brother revealed that he was in some kind of trouble with the persons he was working with.
“The signal was poor, so I couldn’t hear him properly,” Emily Biswah told Kaieteur News.
A few days later, one of Biswah’s girlfriends, whose father also works in the interior, received word that he was in the Bartica Hospital. She immediately relayed this information to his mother and other relatives.
Biswah’s two sisters hurriedly travelled to Bartica on January 2, where they found Biswah in a critical state.
“When we see he, he was delirious,” Emily Biswah recalled.
However, the badly injured man reportedly described what had led to him being hospitalised.
“He saying how Orlando beat he with a gun,” Biswah’s sister said.
According to the woman, her brother managed to relate that a few days earlier, the men had accused him of stealing four pennyweights of raw gold, an accusation he had denied. She said that her brother’s employers became angry and attacked him with a gun but he managed to run away and hide in the nearby bushes for two days.
Hunger and thirst caused him to give up and he returned to the camp where he was promptly set upon by his employers who allegedly inflicted a severe beating on him.
Emily Biswah told this newspaper that she learnt that when her brother appeared to have been seriously injured his assailants rushed him to the Bartica Hospital where they told doctors that he had ingested poison.
“When we see he, he whole face swell up and he eye black and blue. He tongue buss up and he lip buss up and he deh like he mad; like he ain’t know nobody. But he keep calling Orlando name,” Emily Biswah recalled.
So severe were his injuries that doctors at the Bartica Hospital prepared him to be transferred to the Georgetown Hospital for better treatment. However, Biswah never made it; he died the following day, January 4.
The dead man’s mother said that the matter was reported to the police at Eve Leary but according to her, the police said that they would have to await the post mortem examination before taking any action.
“We told them what he told us before he died,” the woman stated.
Padminie Biswah told this newspaper that a post mortem examination, which was done yesterday, revealed that her son had a swollen brain as a result of blunt trauma to the head.
She said that since her son’s demise, she has not contacted any of the persons who had taken him into the interior.
“Dem people ignorant, but we want the police to do they wuk; we want justice,” Padminie Biswah declared.
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