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Cops question 41 Venezuelan men over brutal attack on Parika taxi driver
Kaieteur News – The search continues for five spanish-speaking men accused of almost severing the neck of a taxi driver during a robbery at Ruby Backdam, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) on Saturday last.
The taxi Driver, Shon Smith
Some of the Venezuelan men rounded up for the ID parade
Police in a statement on Wednesday said that they had rounded up several Venezuelan men for an ID parade and took the victim, Shon Smith to the Parika Police Station for him to identify his attackers. Smith was unable to stand because of the severity of his wounds. Police resorted to showing him photographs of 41 Venezuelan men they had detained. “After carefully viewing the photos to see whether he could identify his attackers, he said he did not recognised any of the 41 men as his attackers”, police said.
Smith was reportedly stabbed chopped and robbed by five spanish-speaking men around 01:45hrs on Saturday. The men had reportedly hired him to take them to Ruby Backdam but unleashed a brutal attack when they arrived. Smith alleged that he had to “play dead” in order to save his life. He managed to get up after they left and drove to a house nearby and begged for help. Police said that he was rescued by Jagmohan Singh, a 49-year-old farmer of Ruby Backdam.
The farmer told police that at around 02:00 hrs he was awoken from his sleep by a loud noise. “Singh said he got off his bed and went outside, where he saw the victim, lying down under his house shed with blood running down his body”, police stated. Singh immediately alerted his brother-in-law who took the victim into his car and transported him to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was admitted for treatment.
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