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Jul 25, 2008 News
Despite an almost two-week investigation, police officials are reportedly no closer to identifying the persons who tortured prison inmate, Edwin Niles.
A police official told Kaieteur News yesterday that the investigators have collected statements from high-ranking and junior staffers from the Georgetown Prison, as well as from army ranks who were reportedly present on July 3 when Niles was interrogated.
However, the official and other police sources said that those questioned have not been implicated in Niles’s demise.
There are reports that Niles had given police ranks who took him to the hospital the names of two prison officers who tortured him. But during his stay at the hospital, no police rank questioned Niles to ascertain who inflicted the injuries on him.
And while he was under guard at the hospital, even Niles’s relatives were not allowed to speak to him. Only the prisoner’s reputed wife was allowed to see him briefly, shortly after his admission.
Police officials said that when their ranks arrived at the Georgetown Prisons, several army and prison officers were with the prisoner.
They allege that Niles appeared to have been beaten and there were burns on his back and buttocks.
The officials allege that they took the injured prisoner to the Brickdam Police Station, but then took him to the Georgetown Hospital because of his injuries.
Niles succumbed from his injuries on July 11.
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) have called for an independent inquiry into Niles’s death.
He was buried on Tuesday, with the Guyana Prison Service assisting with the funeral expenses.
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