– pastor’s wife wounded; owner in custody
By Zoisa Fraser
A pack of vicious dogs attacked and killed a 53-year-old security guard on the Ogle Airstrip Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) shortly after six yesterday morning, before turning on a Goedverwagting woman.
Dead is Charles Roopchand of 2C Area H, Lusignan, ECD, while Desire London, the wife of Bishop Philbert London and resident of 123 Goedverwagting, ECD, was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital for her wounds and sent away.
The animals, which according to reports were Pit Bulls, Rottweilers and German Shepherds, were captured by members of the police force’s canine squad and their owner taken into custody to assist with investigations. The police said yesterday that they have taken nine dogs into custody.
At the time of the attack, Roopchand was on his way to the GT&T cell site located farther south on the road, to relieve a colleague. London was headed in the same direction, on one of her routine early morning walks.