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Onderneeming man brutalized by cops
…Police say file with Police Complaints Authority, Kennard says not so
Forty-seven-year-old, Deon Gherow, of Onderneeming Sand Pit, the taxi driver who was severely beaten by two plainclothes policemen, early August, says he is still in pain.
Deon Gherow
He fears that his life can be snuffed out if senior police officers do not investigate the matter immediately.
Gherow’s relatives have said that no action has been taken by the police to date.
According to Gherow, on August 1, he was standing on the Affiance Public Road when a silver-coloured Jeep with four occupants pulled alongside him.
Gherow added that two of the men who were later identified as plainclothes policemen from outside of the Region (Georgetown) ordered him to go into the Jeep. Gherow said the men brandished handguns.
At first Gherow said he attempted to resist the men but the men proceeded to forcefully hold him by his pants and placed him into the jeep.
The policemen then started to beat Gherow with their hands while they proceeded to transport him to his Onderneeming home.
“Budday, what you beating me for?” Gherow questioned. Instead, he said the men responded by saying, “Talk, talk.”
The men who were transporting Gherow to his Onderneeming Sand pit home proceeded to search his home. After the search, the men who came up empty-handed transported Gherow to the Anna Regina police station, where he received more blows at the hands of the two policemen.
Gherow, who said he did not recognise the men or hadn’t any previous problems with either of them, said the men proceeded to put him in a room in the Criminal Investigation Department at the Anna Regina Police Station where the beating continued.
Gherow said the beating only stopped after a teenager who also was apprehended by the police, told the police that Gherow was going home and saw him standing at a restaurant at Suddie with two food boxes in his hand.
Gherow had told the police that he had never seen the young man, but he had earlier transported him to Anna Regina.
While in the lock-ups he cried out for severe pain and begged for medical attention.
Gherow was then transported to the Suddie Public Hospital where he was hospitalized for one week under police guard.
An X-ray showed that he sustained three broken ribs. That was not all. Gherow said that while in the hospital the businessman who was in the jeep offered him $100,000. He apologized for having made a very serious mistake.
He said that another civilian offered him a similar amount as a settlement but he rejected that offer, too.
He was then forced to seek further medical treatment at the Woodlands Hospital in Georgetown. There he spent another two weeks and absorbed the cost.
Gherow is calling for a thorough investigation into the matter and justice.
Police in a statement yesterday said that the matter has been investigated by the Police Office of Professional Responsibility and the file has been submitted to the Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) for his review.
But when contacted yesterday afternoon, the PCA Chairman Cecil Kennard told this newspaper that he was not in possession of any file.
“Take it from the horse’s mouth, I don’t have the file and I don’t know where it is,” Justice Kennard stated. He said that he never got it.
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