More than three months after Orin Boston was shot dead in his bed at Dartmouth by a SWAT cop, the authorities are yet to conclude their investigation and the police are refusing to release the name of the shooter to the family so that a private criminal charge could be laid.
Speaking to Stabroek News, attorney Nigel Hughes said the family now believes that this is being done to prevent the institution of private criminal charges against one of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) own.
“We have written on three occasions to the Commissioner (of Police) asking him for the name of the officer who shot Mr Boston because we would like to proceed with criminal charges against him…..He refused to answer,” Hughes said.