KN pressman cleared of robbery at retired cop’s home

Mar 01, 2014 News

-victims fail to identify him, despite two ID parades

Police have cleared a Kaieteur News pressman of any involvement in the robbery at the home of former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Clinton Conway.
The 23-year-old was released yesterday after the victims of the robbery failed to identify him as Conway’s attacker, even after he was twice placed on identification parades.
The pressman was in custody since Tuesday.
Police officials had stated that they had retrieved the Kaieteur News employee’s identification card at the scene of the robbery, which occurred last week Thursday at Conway’s Lamaha Park home.
However, the pressman insists that he has no idea where Lamaha Park is located and has never been there. He said that he lost his National Identification card last week Thursday while riding from C Field, Sophia to Kaieteur News to uplift his salary.
He recalled that he had worked in the pressroom from last week Thursday night to Monday.
It was on Tuesday that he was taken into custody.
According to the employee, he was resting at a relative’s house in East La Penitence at around noon, when armed police ranks kicked open the bedroom door. He said that the ranks ordered him to kneel with hands behind his head, while one policeman pointed a firearm in his face.
“They then began to ransack the place, saying they were looking for a gun, which they never found,” he said. In the process, I lost a phone and the keys for my motorbike.”
The pressman said that he was then handcuffed and taken to the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost. There, he was told that his ID card had been found at a crime scene.
“I tell them I don’t know anything about that, I lost my ID card on my way to Kaieteur News, and they said to shut my (expletive) mouth, and I am a thief.”
He was then placed in the lockups. The pressman said that it was only then that he realised that he was being detained for the robbery at Mr. Conway’s home. He said he was aware of the robbery because he had helped to print the paper with the story.
He was kept in the lockups until Wednesday, and at around 17.30 hrs, he was taken to the Golden Grove police station in handcuffs. He was placed on an identification parade along with other inmates.
According to the pressman, he was told that he had not been picked out during the ID parade. The ranks then took him back to the East Ruimveldt Outpost, where he was again detained.
At around 17:30 hrs on Thursday, he was handcuffed and shackled and again taken to the Golden Grove Police Station. Again, he was placed on an ID parade. “They looked for people in the neighbourhood and placed them on the ID parade with me.”
The pressman said that once again, the victims failed to implicate him in the robbery. He alleged that the ranks placed him in a vehicle with Mr. Conway and took him to the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost. Once again, he was placed in a cell until around 18.00 hrs, when he was released on $10,000 station bail.
Conway, 60, was robbed and beaten in his home by a lone gunman last week Thursday.
According to police sources, the former Assistant Police Commissioner had come home around noon to find a young man holding his son-in-law at gunpoint and ransacking the house.
A struggle ensued between Conway and the robber, during which the intruder struck Conway on the head with his firearm. The suspect and an accomplice reportedly escaped with some $300,000 and two mobile phones.
Conway was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

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