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Albouystown shooting death report with Police complaints Chairman
The Police Complaints Authority is investigating yet another controversial death of a civilian at the hands of a
Adrian Bishop
member of the Guyana Police Force.
This time, it’s the fatal shooting by a constable of 28-year-old career criminal Adrian Bishop in Albouystown two Saturdays ago.
A senior police official told Kaieteur News that the complaints body, which is headed by Justice Cecil Kennard, is in possession of a report on incidents pertaining to Bishop’s demise.
“The Police Complaints Authority has the file…it is out of the police hands,” the official said. Kaieteur News was also told that the rank who shot Bishop is no longer under close arrest.
Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority Cecil Kennard also confirmed that he received the Bishop file on Friday, but is yet to peruse it. Neither Kennard nor police officials could say whether Bishop’s hands were swabbed for gunpowder residue, to corroborate reports that he had tried to relieve a rank of his firearm.
Bishop was shot in the head at around 20.00 hrs last week Saturday shortly after being taken into custody in the vicinity of Hill Street, Abouystown. He was unarmed at the time and was in a police vehicle.
Bishop, who had a lengthy criminal record, was arrested for assaulting a policewoman, with whom he allegedly had a relationship.
Police have stated that a mobile police patrol had responded to a policewoman’s report that Bishop had assaulted her in Albouystown.
The ranks, accompanied by the policewoman, went to Hill Street, Albouystown, where Bishop of Garnett Street, Kitty, was pointed out to them.
“Adrian Bishop was informed of the allegation against him and was arrested and placed into the police vehicle. While being transported to the police station he held on to a policeman who was armed with a shotgun. During the struggle between Bishop and the armed policeman in the police vehicle, Bishop made efforts to relieve the rank of the firearm, during which a round was discharged that struck him to his neck,” a police release said.
But some Albouystown residents alleged that the policeman deliberately shot Bishop while the he was sitting in the police vehicle.
Residents told Kaieteur News that a policewoman, known to them as ‘Big Wig,’ was at a ‘fish fry’ in Hill Street, Albouystown, when Bishop threw a Guinness bottle at her. He also reportedly struck the rank, who was said to be his ex-girlfriend.
Kaieteur News was told that the injured policewoman made a report at the Brickdam Police Station. She then accompanied about three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pitbull bus.”
According to some residents, Bishop was walking south along Hill Street towards Punt Trench Dam when the policemen arrived.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the ranks began to assault the suspect before forcing him into the police vehicle.
They alleged that while Bishop was sitting in the bus, a policeman, who was outside the vehicle, pushed a shotgun through one of the windows and shot Bishop.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Bishop and two others had appeared in court a few weeks ago for allegedly hijacking a businessman’s car in Cross Street, Alexander Village. They were released on $100,000 bail each.
In August, Bishop was remanded for allegedly robbing Marlon Henry at gunpoint of a motor scooter and other items.
In May, 2008, Bishop was charged with robbing Lester Simon and Kenrick Lawson, respectively, of their cars at gunpoint.
Police allege that Bishop was in the habit of resisting arrest.
The Police Complaints Authority has had to investigate several allegations of police brutality this year.
These included the case involving 15-year-old Alex Griffith, who was shot in the mouth by a police rank while in custody, and that of 19-year-old Junior Thornton, whose hands were allegedly set on fire while he was in custody at the Sparendaam Police Station.
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