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Alleged rape at Timehri…He was not sodomized, he has piles- Neighbours
“He thief, lie and sleep with men for money”
By Romila Boodram
One day after a 34-year-old man made damning allegations against a police detective stationed at the Timehri Police Station, his neighbours are speaking out and are willing to do whatever it takes to clear the cop’s name.
Stephan Phillips
On Tuesday, Stephan Phillips claimed that he was sodomized by a young detective at the police station. He said that the blood on his underpants could prove his story.
According to the man, in exchange to have a break and enter charge made against him dropped, the cop asked him to perform ‘deep throat’ (fellatio) and the policeman then sodomized him repeatedly.
However, when this newspaper visited Phillips’ neighbourhood yesterday, almost everyone in the community said that the 34-year-old’s story was fabricated.
They claimed that the Hill-Foot, Soesdyke/ Linden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident suffers from haemorrhoids (piles).
Piles are swollen blood vessels in or around the anus and rectum.
“When he wants money, he would irritate the pile and it would bleed and then he would go around the neighbourhood and beg for money to go to the hospital but when we give him, he don’t go to the hospital, he does smoke out the money,” one neighbour claimed.
She explained that about two months ago, the man went to her and told her that he suffers from piles.
“I advise him to go to the doctor and he said that he doesn’t have money so I give him $300 to reach to the hospital but he went and buy dope.”
The woman further explained that the 34-year-old man would use his medical condition to obtain money from people in the community.
“He also break and enter neighbours’ home and then he would disappear for a couple of weeks and when he appears, he behaves like nothing happened,” one woman said.
Another neighbour claimed that before she moved into her home, she was informed that he had robbed the persons who were living there. Also, the woman said that she heard that the 34-year-old man plotted with another resident to cut her grill and enter her home whenever she is away.
“Look, this boy is no saint. He spends most of his life in the lockups. He does break and enter people house in this area. He sleeps with men for money,” another resident explained.
Meanwhile, a source stationed at the aforementioned police station said that the man is providing conflicting details as to what really happened. The source said that while the man told the media that he was sodomized in the ablution area, he told detectives that he was raped in the station’s passage way.
“This man is ridiculous. He comes at the station and shows us how he bleeds and we sorry for him and give him money to go to the hospital and this is what he is going to do now. The police he said raped him, is small built. He (Phillips) is twice the policeman’s size,” the source said.
Explaining what happened on Saturday when Phillips was arrested, the source said that a report was made that he (Phillips) break and enter someone’s home and stole a television set. He was seen with the television trying to sell it.
“We went and arrested him. He was in the lock ups. On Tuesday, two policemen went and escort him from the lockups to CID and then he was taken to court. He is claiming that he was raped in the pathway leading to the CID office but that’s impossible because people does normally be there and then too, it’s not one police who was with him, there were two ranks,” the police source lamented.
Stephan Phillips is the individual who claimed that he witnessed when Colwyn Harding was sodomized with a baton by a police in November last but a day later, he changed his story, stating that he did not see anything and that he had lied.
It did not end there. Three days later, Phillips returned to this newspaper and claimed that he was paid by a police to change his story the second time.
He then stated that he actually witnessed the rape.
Meanwhile, following the allegations, Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud has ordered an investigation into the incident.
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