A new court action has been filed on behalf of former policeman John July, who alleges that he was knocked down by former government minister Kellawan Lall.
July is anxiously awaiting a date when the matter will come up in the High Court.
His attorney had previously filed a private action against Lall in 2011 but it was shelved after Lall was appointed Guyana’s ambassador to Brasil. However, the matter was refiled last year but a date has not yet been set for it to be heard.
July, 60, who says he has been forgotten by both his former colleagues in the police force as well as the minister, nevertheless is still clinging to the hope that he will have his day in court.
Almost four years ago, July’s life changed when he was seriously injured following an accident involving a vehicle reportedly driven by Lall and a motorcycle. No one was ever charged for that accident.
Though Lall has never accepted responsibility for the accident and by extension the injuries that July sustained, during a recent interview the man maintained that it was a vehicle driven by the former minister that struck him down and left the scene before coming back sometime later and transporting him to the hospital. July