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Family unhappy with police action into suspicious death
The relatives of 21-year-old Anthony Biswah are not happy with the way the police are treating his death.
Convinced that the young man was beaten to death, the relatives are accusing the police of being reluctant to conduct a proper investigation.
Dead: Anthony Biswah
Biswah died on January 4, last, a day after he was admitted to the Bartica Hospital after what appeared to be a severe beating by his employers at a mining camp in the interior.
His relatives claimed that although he was in a critical condition, Biswah did manage to give some details of how he received the injuries that were clearly visible on his body.
A post mortem examination revealed that he had a swollen brain, although according to relatives, the results are inconclusive.
Biswah’s employers who had taken him to the hospital, had told medical personnel there that he was poisoned, a position that is being totally rejected by relatives.
However, relatives lamented the fact that the police have not shown any inclination to even detain persons for questioning.
To compound matters, the family is reportedly receiving threats from persons associated with Biswah’s employers.
“They telling we that anytime we go and put anything in de papers, dem gun bun down Kaieteur News,” Emily Biswah, the dead man’s sister related.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday after a visit to the police F Division Headquarters, Eve Leary, the woman said that she is not satisfied with the way the matter is being handled.
“They treating us like if we kill he,” she said.
According to Emily Biswah, her sister, Tiffany, who had travelled to Bartica and had spoken to her brother before he died, related to investigators what Biswah told her before he succumbed.
“It was she, he girlfriend, a nurse and an aunt who he talk to at de same time. All a we hear how they beat he with gun. He call names,” Tiffany Biswah told this newspaper.
She said that this was conveyed to investigators in a detailed statement but they keep insisting that it was hearsay.
Relatives said that they were informed that body samples from Biswah are being sent to Trinidad and Tobago for testing, as the police work on the poison theory.
According to Emily Biswah, the owner of the camp where her brother was allegedly beaten is in the city and she is at a loss as to why the police are not interested in questioning him.
“De police is a waste of time… Instead ah dem questioning de man, dem questioning we… People getting murder and dem ain’t doing nothing,” Emily Biswah declared.
According to Emily Biswah, the man has been offering the family money to assist them with the burial of their brother but they have refused to accept it.
Anthony Biswah had left his home in Albouystown on December 15, last, 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 and battling for his life.
He succumbed a day later but not before relating a harrowing tale of being badly beaten by the very people who took him into the interior.
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