Two men who were in custody over an armed robbery committed on a Hampshire, Corentyne family, have told an attorney that police did not assault or ill-treat them since their detention.
Police in a press statement yesterday said that about 5 pm on Saturday “Attorney-at-Law Khemraj Ramjattan went to the Albion Police Station where he requested to see two men who were in custody at the station. The two men had been arrested as police continue their investigations into the armed robbery committed on a family” at Hampshire last Friday.
Ramjattan, according to police, “spoke to the two men who informed him in the presence of the police that the police had not assaulted or ill-treated them in any way since their arrest. It had been alleged that one of the men was beaten and the other shot by the police.”
The two men, police further said, were released on bail yesterday and investigations are ongoing.
Hours after the armed robbery in Hampshire, Hemchand Gopaul who was accused of being a perpetrator was fatally shot by police. Three men, police had reported then, were involved in the attack. One was arrested that same morning while the other was taken into custody some time after. Gopaul’s family has denied that he was involved in the robbery.
