Foiled Port Mourant robbery: Family of man arrested in death of bandit protest

Family members of the man implicated in killing a teen bandit in the foiled robbery on a jeweller at Port Mourant Market, are calling for his release from police custody.
Family members and supporters staged a demonstrative protest at the Port Mourant Market on Saturday morning.
As police continue to investigate the broached robbery of a Port Mourant Market jeweler and the alleged unlawful killing of one of the bandits, family members of the man arrested for allegedly killing the alleged bandit, are demanding his release.

On October 26, two teenagers, one armed with a cutlass and the other with a firearm attempted to rob a Corentyne jeweller who was plying his trade at the Port Mourant Market.
Police said one of the perpetrators was 18-year-old Parmand Pertab called “Mikey” of Hampshire Village, Corentyne.
He was attacked by a group of cutlass-wielding men and was eventually picked up and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he subsequently passed away.
An autopsy performed on the body by Government Phonologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan gave the cause of death as shock and hemorrhage due to multiple incised wounds.
Regional Commander Senior Superintendent Shivpersaud Bacchus said a man is currently in custody assisting with the investigation into the unlawful killing of one of the bandits.
One week after last Saturday’s incident, family members of the man who has been taken into custody staged a protest demonstration calling for his release.
“We out here because thief-man coming and rob people every Saturday at the market and when they gone then is when the police coming. When people take things in their own hands, you on the wrong side,” the man’s sister Seema Nauth said.
The man arrested goes by the alias ‘Chicken Man’ and is a poultry vendor, who operates out of the Port Mourant Market.
“They want charge him for murder and the thief get catch red-handed with the bag with jewel,” Nauth continued.
According to the woman, she encountered bandits firsthand, and none of the perpetrators were apprehended. She too had to take some action.
“I get rob two times and nothing happened. I had to move out from my house and buy a next place in a next village all because of thief,” she related.
Meanwhile, the mother of the alleged teen bandit had called for those responsible for killing her son to be brought to justice. The woman had contended that while her son committed a wrong, the law needed to take its course – in that, he should have been charged and brought to the courts to answer for his crimes.
She had argued too that her son was young and was robbed of an opportunity to turn his life around. (G4)