A prisoner, who was hit with pellets in both eyes during unrest last month at the Camp Street Prison, is now blind and his mother is pleading for assistance to foot his medical bills.
“I know people might be hard and say he deserve it but they don’t know he story. Nobody has offered we help and he gat to get help to do everything plus he in pain all de time,” Anika Mangal, the mother of 27-year-old Devindra Persaud, told Stabroek News yesterday.
Persaud was shot in both eyes with pellets fired by members of the Joint Services during renewed