Eight young men had the scare of their lives and three including a 16-year-old boy suffered severe injuries after a gang of men viciously attacked them with cutlasses, steel rods and other implements at Greenfield, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Saturday night.
It is not the first time the gang has been involved in such attacks and residents called for the police to take action saying that the two ringleaders, who are brothers, have been involved in similar incidents before but were not charged. They said that one incident saw the two brothers being held for several days after they beat a man and fractured his skull but they were eventually released without charge.
Late yesterday, the police held one of the suspects and he was positively identified by his victims.
In Saturday’s incident, Charles Crawford, 16, was severely beaten and sustained several chops to the head. He was also stabbed with an ice pick and beaten about the body with steel rods. “He back and so get broadside with cutlass,” his grandmother Agatha Headley told Stabroek News.
Arif Samad, 18, of Dochfour, ECD, cannot walk after being badly beaten about his feet and legs with steel rods. He also sustained cuts to his nose, back and was beaten about the body. ‘His whole body get blows,” his mother, Dhanwanti Kallicharran said.
Jerren Dyal of Mahaicony was stabbed with an ice pick to his ribs and shoulder. “They hold he and bore he up,” one of his friends related. Alex Inderaj, 20, was lashed to his head and hands with steel rods before he escaped into