An Enmore resident has alleged that police placed a plastic bag over her nephew’s face and beat him up at the Mackenzie Police Station on Monday evening in trying to force him to confess to a murder that was committed at Kimbia, Berbice River, earlier this year.
Speaking to Stabroek News at the Linden-Georgetown Bus Park at around 13.00 hrs yesterday, Valerie St. Kitts said she had just left the Mackenzie Police Station where she had spoken to the Commandant, who told her that her nephew had been removed from that police station to Eve Leary where she would be unable to visit him.
“My nephew ain’t eat whole day yesterday,” the distraught woman said, pointing to a styrofoam box and a blue bag that contained a bottle of water. “I come all the way from the East Coast to see him.” St. Kitts said she had received a telephone call at her Enmore home from her nephew, Quacy Walker, 24, on 18th August, in which he told her that he had been arrested on the previous evening at the Amerindian Hostel in New Amsterdam and taken to the Mackenzie Police Station, Linden.
According to St. Kitts, her nephew said he had been arrested in connection with the murder of a Jamaican national that occurred at Kimbia about four months ago. She said her nephew told her that he was badly beaten and the police placed a plastic bag over his head to force him to confess to the murder.
St. Kitts said she has a sister, who is a former Toshao for the area, who has returned to the United States of America after receiving several death threats because she had been outspoken against widespread marijuana farming and smoking in the area by certain residents. She said her sister’s shotgun went missing and the police are saying that her nephew had taken possession of the shotgun, which was used in the murder of the Jamaican national.
She said that the Commander did not say much when she spoke with him at the Mackenzie Police Station around noon yesterday but a detainee shouted from a cell that he was in the lock up when they beat her nephew. She further stated that the detainee shouted out that his name was Adina Bowen.
“Our family want justice for my nephew,” St. Kitts said, adding that she was going to catch a bus to Georgetown and try her luck to see whether she would be allowed to visit and talk with her nephew at Eve Leary.
