– claims suspect was pardoned by President on narco conviction
The mother of Gregory Garraway, 25, of Charlestown, Georgetown, who was shot and killed during a robbery early last month is calling for the Police to mete out justice for her son.
Dead: Gregory Garraway
Pinky Hutson along with other family picketed outside Parliament Buildings late last week to have their voices heard.
Speaking with Guyana Times Hutson explained that her family decided to take protest actions after the perpetrator, who has been identified as a man known as “Three D”, a convicted felon, was allegedly earlier this year pardoned by the President.
She relayed that the man of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was sentenced to three years in prison charged with naracotics possession.
During their protest, the woman told this publication that the family met with ranks from the Guyana Police Force who related that the suspect will be arrested shortly for an identification parade.
“It is so unfair, what happened to my son, his life was just taken from him and not one time did the police even come to us to say anything; we need justice.”
However, during a press briefing with the media, Assistant Police Commissioner David Ramnarine said that Hutson’s claims that Police are not assisting are bogus.
He said that Police have on occasions reached out to the mother, who refused to cooperate.
“When I saw the press report, I called the officer in charge of crime A Division…I told him to go to this mother’s home and invite her to the Police Station, speak with her in the presence of other detectives, tell her you feel her pain and you feel her loss and have her cooperate with us.
The detective officer did just that, and informed me that the madam indicated that she will come at her own time,” the commissioner related.
The Commissioner noted that further contact was made with the mother, who indicated that she was ready to cooperate; however, when they reached out to her, she was unavailable.
On the day of Garraway’s murder, he along with his brother was walking along Mandela Avenue where they went to buy food when they were approached by the suspect.
Garraway was allegedly accosted and the accused who snatched his gold chain. However, Garraway put up a fight and so the suspect shot him to his chest.
The young man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital and nine days later succumbed to his injuries.
He leaves to mourn his mother sister.
