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South Road, Grove slayings…Former ‘killing squad’ ranks under close arrest

Jun 19, 2015 News

A corporal, a lance corporal and a former sergeant were taken into custody yesterday as the probe intensified into allegations that they were part of a now-disbanded squad that carried out several extra-judicial killings of civilians.
A top police official confirmed that the men were placed under close arrest after an arranged confrontation at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary, between them and self-confessed hit-man/police informant Lennox Wayne, also known as ‘Two Colours.’
“From here, we are trying to wrap up our investigations and seek legal advice on the two matters,” the official said.
Kaieteur News understands that during the arranged confrontation, Wayne alleged that the ranks had shot and killed five unarmed civilians in October and in December 2009, while claiming that the men were robbery suspects who were slain during shootouts.
But according to a source, the ranks stuck to their story that the men were robbery suspects who had shot at them.
On October 12, 2013, cousins Jermaine Canterbury, 21, and Mark Anthony Joseph, called ‘Two Grand’, 19, and Romario Gouveia, 19, all residents of Albouystown, were slain during what police said was a shootout near the K&VC Hotel in South Road.
On December 7, 2013, Paul Bascom, a resident of Diamond Housing Scheme, and Alberto Grant or Alberto Mustapha, 28, called Mukie, of Lot 299 Meadow Brook Gardens were killed during an alleged 20-minute shootout with police at a Grove, East Bank Demerara residence.
Wayne has claimed that he was present when the South Road trio was shot, and it was he who had informed the ranks that the suspects were planning a robbery. But he also claimed that he had no idea that the suspects would have been executed.
He claimed that some of the suspects were mowed down even as they had their hands raised in surrender. He said that one of the ranks brought a .38 revolver in a haversack to the scene of the ‘shootout’. The police reportedly later claimed that this weapon was retrieved after the ‘shootout.’
Wayne first gave police investigators an official statement, in the presence of attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes, two Thursdays ago.
The accused ranks were questioned last Monday at CID Headquarters, but were not detained.
Head of the Police Complaints Authority, Cecil Kennard, had recommended an inquest into the shooting of the three men on South Road, following complaints made by the father of one of the dead men.
Earlier this month, Wayne blew the lid on the alleged police involvement in the plot to kill popular businessman Mohamed F. Khan. One of his revelations has since led to a Police Sergeant being charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Wayne is presently incarcerated, awaiting trial for the murder of Lusignan Cosmetologist, Ashminee Harrryram,
Kaieteur News understands that the unit was disbanded last year after reports that they were operating outside of their mandate and were not reporting specifically to their superiors in the Guyana Police Force.
Former Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has denied having knowledge of the anti-crime unit that Wayne has fingered in the extra-judicial killings.

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