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Jun 11, 2014 News
There seems to be confusion of some sort with regards to the status of the investigation surrounding Dunston La Fleur, an alleged bandit who was shot by an Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman on January 17, last.
Commander of ‘C’ Division, Brian Joseph, in an interview with this publication, said that the file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice sometime back, but an official from the DPP’s office yesterday said that they have not received such a file.
According to the Commander, 28-year-old La Fleur, who was shot once to his lower right side face, was placed on station bail, just after he was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
“He (La Fleur) is at home and the file is with the DPP,” the commander told this newspaper, but this seems not to be the case, since the official from the DPP’s office is claiming that they “have never come across such a file”.
La Fleur was hospitalized for at least four months.
“At first he was under police guard, but like the police just get tired and they stop guard him. The last time I see a police with him was in February and he was in the hospital in April,” a source at GPHC said.
Kaieteur News was told that La Fleur had gained entry into the businessman, Mananno Jeffrey’s home through an open window in the family’s bathroom located in the bottom flat of the two-storey building.
The 31-year-old businessman is a Rural Constable and a member of the Annandale North Community Policing Group.
He had explained to this newspaper that his father, Ishwar Jeffrey, woke him up and informed him that three men were in the yard.
“He went to the bathroom upstairs and he heard some strange sounds and when he peeped through the downstairs window, he saw the three men trying to get into the house,” the businessman explained.
He added that he was about to fire a warning shot, but noticed that one of the intruders had already got into his home. “I went downstairs but was confronted by this guy. It was me and him face to face and he had a gun in his hand.”
Jeffrey recounted that he fired a shot at the man but missed. “When I fired the shot, he run in the guest room (located in the lower flat) and was shaking the grill hard, hard and like he realize the only way he could have escaped was through the same bathroom window.”
According to Jeffrey, who operates a food stall and owns a fishing boat, the intruder then peeked out of the room and fired a shot. “He had no idea that I was hiding at the side of the wall. So when he fired the shot, he came out of the room, pointing his gun straight, and I was right at the side of him, but he didn’t see me, and I fired the shot.”
“He fall down and I run out to look for the other two men, but they had already escaped,” Jeffrey said. He added that police officers arrived at his home about one and a half hours later and took the badly injured man to the hospital. Initially they all thought that the man had died and had reported this.
The businessman said that was the first time gunmen had tried to rob him.
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