Dredge owner Angold Bobbington Cox, who was shot and killed by police ranks during a confrontation in his home at Eccles, will be buried on Friday.
According to Patricia Evans, the dead man’s niece, relatives still have heard nothing from the police in terms of investigations into her uncle’s killing.
She disclosed that she and her family were advised to go to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), then the Police Complaints Authority and also to retain a lawyer.
Evans stated that some of her aunts will be coming to Guyana for their brother’s funeral and the entire family will be going all out to seek justice.
“We don’t mind if the man [who shot Cox] gets several years in prison, we will just be satisfied that at least something was done,” she said while reiterating that her uncle wasn’t a bad man.
“My uncle never get lockup in he entire life. He never had a bad record in school. The police should investigate that.”
Evans related that one of her cousins had witnessed the post-mortem examination (PME) and found that Cox was shot to the neck and chest and “he heart and liver buss up.” This, she said, only proves what she and many others who were present at the time of the incident have recounted; that he was shot at close range.
The PME was performed on Monday by Government Pathologist Dr V Brijmohan at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
According to a police report, the cause of death was given as shock and haemorrhage and laceration to the heart and liver due to gunshot injury.
Cox, called Bob, 54, was fatally shot during a confrontation with the police at his 164 ‘A’ Eccles, East Bank Demerara home on Monday morning.
