Fatal shooting of mentally-ill man…$150,000 bail each for accused cops

Dec 18, 2015 News

Two police constables who were involved in the fatal shooting of a mentally challenged man at Cane Grove, Mahaica, five months ago made their first court appearance on Wednesday before Magistrate Suanna Lovell, at the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court to face manslaughter charges.
The two ranks, Constables Marlon Cruickshank and Elvis Jones, were not required to plead to the indictable charge. They were granted bail in the sum of $150,000 each.
They are accused of fatally shooting Junior Gulliver during an attempt to arrest him on July 4, last.
The two cops have claimed that they acted in self defence, while relatives of the dead man are insisting that Gulliver was unarmed and did not pose a threat to the cops when he was shot.
Magistrate Lovell had initially set bail at $250,000 each but reduced after stirring arguments by the defence.
Constables Jones and Cruickshank were both represented at Wednesday’s hearing by Attorney at Law Patrice Henry, who in his argument for bail, told the court that this case is clearly a result of public pressure.
He argued that from his assessment there is very little evidence to convict the two policemen.
Jones and Cruickshank were ordered to return to the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court on January 15.
On July 4 last, the two cops, who were attached to the Cane Grove Police Outpost, first responded to a report that Gulliver was threatening persons in the village.
Upon arrival at the scene, the policemen, who were unarmed, came under attack from Gulliver, who had a cutlass, and they had to hastily retreat. In the process the vehicle they came in was damaged by Gulliver, who had struck the window with his cutlass.
The ranks went back to the station, and after receiving another report that Gulliver was still acting in a threatening manner, they returned to the area to confront him, this time carrying firearms.
There are differing versions of what occurred at the time of the shooting, but minutes after the police returned to the area, Gulliver sustained two bullet wounds to his upper body.
A post mortem examination performed on Gulliver’s body by Dr. Nehaul Singh revealed that he was shot twice, by two different calibre weapons, the larger of which inflicted the fatal wound.
The post mortem found that Gulliver died from perforation of the lung and spinal gunshot injury.
According to a police source, the fatal bullet which was fired from a rifle, passed through his lung and spine from the front of his body. The other bullet, fired from a smaller calibre weapon, struck his left shoulder, causing minimal damage.

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