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Dairy vigilante attack…Juveniles among three arrested
Days after three youngsters were attacked by a gang of six ‘so-called’ vigilantes in Dairy, last week
Alex Parks, 15 years old
Wednesday, three men, among them two juveniles, were apprehended by police and taken to court. The men were positively identified by the victims.
Kaieteur News was told that the first accused who was arrested on Saturday, made an appearance before the Wales Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The case was adjourned to a later date, and the accused was remanded to prison. The man had been identified by Conroy Washington.
The two juveniles who were positively identified by one of the victims, Alex Parks, are scheduled to make an appearance before the same court today. They have since been released from police custody.
Alex Parks, 15, Conroy Washington, 24 and Shaquille Sears, 10, all of Dairy, West Bank Demerara, were at a location some 15 minutes away from their home catching birds when they were given a sound beating by the irate ‘so-called’ vigilantes.
Even after they were treated at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) for injuries they received, Parks had to be rushed back to the hospital by his mother. He continues to complain about severe head and chest pains. According to his mother his injured left ear continues to “run”.
This publication was told that 15 men armed with cutlasses attacked the ‘bird catchers’. They were stripped of their clothing, beaten, tied up and placed to sit in an ant nest.
According to reports, the duo were rescued by a villager who took them to the La Grange Police
Conroy Washington, 24 years old
station, before they were escorted by ranks to the WDRH.
According to the traumatized family of the men, who are cousins, Parks and Conroy was hospitalized while 10 year old Sears who escaped severe injuries, was placed into police custody.
The very distraught mother said that she was informed by a reliable source that her son’s attack was one out of three attacks within the last two weeks in connection with a robbery in Middle Dam Dairy (Independence Street).
Parks suffered the worst beating in Wednesday’s mob attack, as the group of ‘so-called’ vigilantes accused him of murdering an elderly woman last Saturday night. Investigations are continuing.
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