…police screw-ups
Your Eyewitness is a “crime buff”. No! No! No! He doesn’t enjoy COMMITTING crimes, but since he was a kid, he enjoys reading “whodunnits”; looking at them in movies in cinemas, and looking at police shows like “Law and Order” and CSI. And now with global channels like Netflix getting into the act, he’s getting a chance to see how the police solve crimes across the world – from Albania to Zimbabwe!!
And through all those years, he always wondered whether “our” police investigated and “cracked” cases with the same investigative techniques. SOPs?
Sadly, he’s had to conclude that our local police are in a league of their own when it comes to solving crimes – the Hapless League. Never, in all his wide and eclectic exposure to policing, has he come across such a level of ineptitude. All of this came to a head this week with the heart-rending murder of that poor 11-year-old child Adrianna Younge, at a local motel at Tuschen that’s certainly destined to become our version of the Bates Motel in the movie Psycho. Remember that iconic shower scene when the screaming Janet Leigh character is murdered?
Thing is, this ain’t the first murder committed at the motel. Back in 2012, a young man who came to the motel for the same reason Adrianna did – to enjoy the pool with some friends – was murdered. The facts in that murder showed the young man was viciously beaten, taken to a room, then later dumped into the pool. The hotel owner’s son and an employee were charged and arraigned; released for prosecutorial deficiencies, and recently rearraigned – 13 years after!!
But here with Adrianna – whose body shows evidence of violence inflicted – the plot thickens. The police actually claimed they had evidence that the child was picked up by a red Raum – number plates and all identified – and the driver was located. Now that we know the child’s body had to’ve been in the motel all along – which RELATIVES had ascertained by looking at CCTV from a neighbour’s camera – the police will have to explain why they tried to throw everybody off-scent.
Similarly, the hotel owner – who’s been arrested – will have to at least explain why he refused to have the ENTIRE premises searched, and how come all HIS hotel cameras were “off”!!
In your Eyewitness’s estimate, this terrible incident is merely another manifestation of the rot that has overtaken the entire Police Force for decades. Part of that rot is a total loss of professionalism, driven by bribery of all ranks from top to bottom.
Imagine one police official with $800 MILLION in his account and not even the bank questioned it!! Root and branch reorganization demanded!!
…societal sentiments
Adrianna’s murder has brought together all Guyana – and Guyanese abroad – like few events have done before. Unfortunately, it took this gruesome act to make us see each other as human beings and not as political pawns. We all know the innocence of children, and should henceforth strive to resurrect this commonality of perspective when leaders try to divide us again. Sadly, some Opposition types sought to score political points – proving they can slither lower than a snake’s belly.
The multiracial crowd that gathered in front of the motel to protest the murder directed their anger at the owners, and not at each other. And the Government political types understood that the protesters had to be allowed to let off steam. A few tried to provoke the police, but the police didn’t lose their discipline, and others in the crowd didn’t join in.
Unfortunately, some took the opportunity during the confusion to loot property like mattresses, TVs, and other items from the motel.
They really desecrated Adrianna’s memory.
…bias
Your Eyewitness agrees that the local police are compromised, and can’t be trusted to investigate their own. But the RSS officers from the Caribbean?? And a most highly qualified pathologist from Barbados? So, to the Opposition, only the FBI are incorruptible??
