Jason Montgomery, the Australian shot during a robbery at Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant in January, has finally made it home.
The 36-year-old businessman had sustained a gunshot wound in the abdomen. On the night of January 8, when three gunmen stormed the business place on David Street, Kitty, Montgomery was one of two patrons who were injured. A waitress, Kulmattie Singh, was fatally shot in the head.
After the incident, Montgomery was admitted to the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He was released from GPH three days later on January 12. The same day Montgomery was admitted to a private hospital where he remained a patient in their Intensive Care Unit until he left the country in early February.
Montgomery boarded a flight at Timehri on February 7, the first of several which would take him home. However, he was taken off his London flight and rushed to a hospital there for immediate medical attention.
His mother, Sandy Brosnan, had said that he was being treated for pneumonia and a number of infections in the London hospital. She was reported as saying, “The air escort evacuation personnel got him on a commercial flight. He was supposed to come through to Australia after a rest in London.”
After spending several weeks in London, Montgomery was finally well enough to fly home. He is now a patient at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Australia.
Meanwhile, police are yet to make a breakthrough in the Safraz case. The perpetrators are still at large.
