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Mon Repos resident charged for beating GSA student

Jan 28, 2016 News

A Mon Repos man was granted bail by Magistrate Zamena Ali after he appeared before her, charged with unlawfully wounding Guyana School of Agriculture student, Michael Layne.
Rohit Persaud, was placed on $30,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to the charge on Tuesday at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.
Persaud was positively identified as a member of a gang of villagers who attacked and beat Layne and his five colleagues after mistaking them for thieves, last Saturday night.
Layne got the brunt of the beating, sustaining two deep lacerations to the head.
Three other students were treated at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital on the night of the incident.
One student escaped the beating by reportedly hiding in a yard for almost five hours, while another managed to make it back to the GSA compound where he alerted authorities.
The students are extremely grateful to ranks of a police patrol arriving in time to save them from what could have been a fatal thrashing.
The students spoke of being dragged from yards and trenches and beaten with cutlasses and other objects, even as they tried to explain that they were students from the East Coast Demerara-based agriculture training institution.
The youths aroused suspicion after they were spotted in an empty lot near the GSA compound after they had scaled the institution’s fence to go to a party a few villages away.
“We missed the bus that was to take us there, and since the guard closed the school gate at nine, we decided to jump the fence and ended up in an empty lot.
“The neighbours saw us and they began shouting, ‘Look dem! Look dem!’ We didn’t pay them no mind because it looked like they were drinking, so we continued on our way along Agriculture Road,” one of the students said.
He said that as they were approaching the railway embankment, a yellow station wagon pulled up alongside them and eight men armed with cutlasses, knives and wood came out and confronted them.

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