“Royston was no murderer”

Nov 17, 2014 News

– says family member of slain driver linked to disappearances

By Michael Jordan

She knew him from the day he entered the world to the time of his inglorious exit, and while Royston Waldron was no angel, she’s adamant that he is not the monster that the police and some members of the public have painted him to be.
The close family member, who asked not to be identified, says she’s convinced that the 42-year-old ex-policeman and taxi driver knew nothing about the fate of missing policewoman Patriena Nicholson and school teacher Nyozi Goodman.
“I don’t say he didn’t have no waywardness; he would gamble, (but) he was not a murderer…positively no,” the relative said.
According to the woman, Waldron was “upset” that police were constantly questioning him about Nicholson and Goodman, whom investigators fear may no longer be alive.

Royston Waldron

“He was upset; he would say ‘I don’t know nothing’.”
The relative was aware of the relationship between Waldron and Patriena Nicholson, but said that there was no acrimony when they separated. She says that she did not know Nyozi Goodman, Waldron’s other missing friend.
She recalled that after Nicholson vanished, police “tumbled up” the Sophia house where he was residing at the time. They also detained him for 72 hours but “had nothing on him,” the relative said.
She also doesn’t believe that Waldron was planning to commit a robbery when he was slain, as police have claimed.
It was she who identified the body at the mortuary on Saturday. From her brief view of the corpse, the taxi driver was shot in the chest and abdomen.
However, the relative indicated that she will not be asking for a police investigation into Waldron’s death and just wants him to have a quiet burial.
Eyewitnesses have repeatedly said that Waldron had surrendered when the ranks shot him, while police claim that they had returned fire after being shot at.
Police have said that Waldron and his two companions were suspects in a number of armed robberies when they were apprehended last Friday in Thomas and Alexander Streets, Kitty.
Kaieteur News understands that one of Waldron’s detained accomplices has implicated the gang in at least four recent armed robberies.
The suspect, a 32-year-old Prashad Nagar resident, reportedly confessed on Saturday, after a businesswoman identified him as one of the men who had robbed her at gunpoint last October.
She was reportedly attacked in Avenue of the Republic shortly after leaving a commercial bank.
Police are also questioning a 26-year-old Kitty resident, who was with Waldron when he was shot.
Kaieteur News was told that Waldron joined the Guyana Police Force after leaving the Guyana National Service. However, he was reportedly dismissed from the Force, and some of his ex-colleagues said he turned to a life of crime, under the guise of driving a taxi.
In June, 2008, he was arrested and remanded for harbouring two key members of the Rondell ‘Fine man’ Rawlins gang. He was also charged for armed robbery.

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