Dear Editor,
Amidst the allegations and defences in the unfolding Colwyn Harding matter, I reserve judgment. For the time being. And while there is serious concern over the conflicting timelines involving tabling and exposing what took place between the family and senior police officers, my emphasis is on remaining watchful at this point.
Now having said this, I remind interested citizens of the horror story of a near similar case that occurred in New York several years ago. It involved Haitian immigrant Abner Louima; the offending instrument was a plunger; the area of the anatomy unchanged. The sickening result was unspeakable; a police officer named Volpe was the perpetrator in a police station house. There were observers and witnesses. They knew nothing, said nothing.
And finally, I remind concerned and outraged citizens that it was the fiercely determined and sharply insistent efforts of attending nurses, one in particular, that forced this barbaric incident from the solid, impenetrable shadows within the precinct and the unspeaking police wall to the terrible light of how depraved man can be to his fellow man. This includes those in uniform and sworn to uphold the law.
I do hope for our own sanity and peace of mind here in Guyana, that that precedent has not been repeated locally. If it did, there will be someone somewhere who somehow will step forward sometime. This I believe.
Yours faithfully,
GHK Lall
