By Kenesha Fraser
Forty-seven-year-old Deon Gherow of Onderneeming Sand Pit, who was allegedly beaten by the police, is now fearful for his life, since, according to him, he was told by the men who beat him: “If I allow this to go far I will have to be walking and watching back.”
Speaking with Stabroek News, Gherow, called ‘Coolie’ said he was assaulted on August 1 of this year at around 10 am. “I was standing on the Affiance Public Road waiting for transportation to go home to my house at Onderneeming when a jeep pull up and two man jump out,” he said.
The man who is a taxi driver said he did not work on that day but had gone to Affiance on other business. “The two man who said that they are police had guns and then they snatch me by my pants’ waist and throw me in the vehicle. Me didn’t recognise none of them but when they throw me in the vehicle I see a man name [name given] who is the manager for a business [name given] at Anna Regina. The two man just start beating me up and telling me to