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Jan 03, 2015 News
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered an inquest into the September 2014 shooting death of civilian Adrian Bishop by a police rank.
Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard, had handed over the file to the DPP in early November.
The report contains the ballistics expert’s statement and the post mortem report, as well as statements by the rank who shot Bishop. It also contains statements by civilians who claimed that the shooting was deliberate.
Bishop, 28, was shot in the neck on Saturday, September 20, 2014, after he was taken into custody in the vicinity of Hill Street, Abouystown. He was unarmed at the time and was in a police vehicle.
At the time he was being arrested for assaulting a policewoman with whom he allegedly had a relationship.
The police have stated that a mobile police patrol responded to a policewoman’s report that Bishop had assaulted her in Albouystown.
The ranks, accompanied by the policewoman, went to Hill Street, Albouystown, where Bishop, of Garnett Street, Kitty, was pointed out to them.
The police claimed that while he was being transported in a police vehicle, Bishop attempted to take away a shotgun from one of the ranks. A round was discharged and it struck Bishop in the neck, police said.
But several Albouystown residents alleged that the policeman deliberately shot Bishop, while he was sitting in the police patrol vehicle.
Residents alleged that a policewoman, known to them as ‘Big Wig,’ was at a ‘fish fry’ in Hill Street, Albouystown, when Bishop assaulted her.
They described the rank as the civilian’s ex-girlfriend. Persons claiming to be eyewitnesses said that the policewoman accompanied three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey bus.”
According to some residents, the ranks began to assault Bishop before forcing him into the police vehicle.
They alleged that while Bishop was sitting in the bus, a policeman, who was outside the vehicle, pushed a shotgun through one of the windows and shot him.
They alleged that the rank dropped the weapon after shooting the civilian, and that his colleagues retrieved the firearm.
Bishop was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Bishop and two others had appeared in court for allegedly hijacking a businessman’s car in Cross Street, Alexander Village. hey were each released on $100,000 bail.
In August, Bishop was remanded for allegedly robbing Marlon Henry at gunpoint of a motor scooter and other items.
In May, 2008, Bishop was charged with robbing Lester Simon and Kenrick Lawson, respectively, of their cars at gunpoint.
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