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Search for missing 6-year-old Anna Regina student intensifies
…Father maintains his innocence, alleges police brutality
A police source revealed yesterday that the search for six-year-old Anna Regina pupil, Daniel Adolphus,
Missing: Daniel Adolphus
has intensified.
The source revealed that the police have been combing trenches and areas of interest to find some lead to the boy who mysteriously disappeared on December 2 while he was in the care of his father, Ewart Junior Adolphus.
Along with alleging police brutality, Ewart is maintaining that he had nothing to do with his child’s disappearance despite admitting to cutting Daniel’s throat back in April of this year.
Ewart Adolphus claimed, yesterday, that while he was in police custody, he was shackled and beaten by five ranks attached to the Anna Regina Police Station to provide information pertaining to his son’s location.
He said that he was shackled and beaten. He also alleged that the officials placed a black plastic bag over his head and began to beat him about his body.
“They shackle my foot and one of them hold me from behind. The rest started to cuff and kick me. They tell me I was a murderer and a robber. A detective sergeant pulled a gun on me and tell me that he will kill me.
“I get cuff in my eye and they punctured my right side ear drum” he said, taking a piece of cotton wool out of his ear and pointing to his left eye that was bloodshot.
When contacted yesterday, a relative claimed to have seen Ewart a day after his detainment, but there were no visible marks of violence about his body and is certain that he is fabricating a story.
The relative also questioned that if he had indeed been tortured, then why was his eye still bloodshot more than a week after?
Ewart said that as the ranks beat him, they reminded each other “Don’t leave too much marks of violence”.
Yesterday, an official of the Anna Regina Police Station claimed that he had no knowledge of the incident.
Ewart Junior Adolphus
However, the search is still on.
In recent reports – Ewart claimed that he awoke some time around midnight on December 2 and found the television on, the door ajar but young Daniel was nowhere to be seen. He then alerted neighbours and a search began. He made a report to the Anna Regina Police Station where he was detained and interrogated.
Ewart said that he was arrested on Sunday December 6, and on the following Tuesday they began to torture him. He further related that he was taken into a detective’s office where he was placed on a chair and questioned.
He recalled that an officer came in and joined the other four men in the room. One of the ranks said that they were being too easy on him and that they should turn up the heat. It was then he said the torture began.
Last April, Ewart was brought before an Essequibo Magistrate’s Court where he admitted to slashing young Daniel’s throat. He also admitted that he was unwell and his nerves got the best of him. The Magistrate presiding over the case requested that Ewart go through a medical evaluation.
Ewart was also fingered in a robbery back in December 2010 where he was charged with robbery under arms. He, along with other accomplices allegedly held Udho Gopaul at gun point and relieved him of several items totaling $2.093 M. On the same day, he was also accused of robbing Zorma Gopaul of items valued at $288,600.
When confronted with this information yesterday, he said that he was accused and “nothing came out of the story”.
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