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Dec 20, 2008 Letters
Dear Editor,
As a widow operating a business at Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast, I had to suffer the indignity of being incarcerated at the Suddie Police Station for nine hours for no justifiable reason.
I was sent for and just pushed out of my shop door by police with the expectation of returning in a jiffy.
But surprisingly, a command was made for me to pay fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for damages done to a police vehicle.
The driver was said to have been involved in an accident on the Zorg Public Road during recently some two miles away from my home located at the same business premises.
After refusing to pay the money, I was placed from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in an unbearably stink cell.
My shop was left unattended and some other things including copra that I had put out to dry were left unsecured.
It was very much unfair to me who has always been a law abiding citizen and moreso a single woman to be treated like a criminal especially since the person involved in the accident is in no way connected to me.
This was later verified by the police and I was released.
Despite being pressured while in custody to pay the money fine, I did not budge during the period of wrongful imprisonment.
Eserdai Dhanpaul
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