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Oct 07, 2014 News
Head of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard, has said that the post mortem report is missing from the Adrian Bishop shooting death file that police handed over to him two Fridays ago.
Perusing this report is crucial to his investigation, since it would confirm whether the circumstances surrounding Bishop’s death are consistent with what is being claimed by the rank who shot him, Kennard said.
“The policeman is saying that (Bishop) was shot in a struggle that the gun went off by accident. There are witnesses who are saying differently.”
The Chairman said that he had requested the post mortem report from Crime Chief Leslie James since last week Monday, and would make a second request for the documentt.
Bishop, 28, was shot in the head on Saturday, September 20, after being 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.
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.
Police allege that while he was being transported in a police vehicle, Bishop held on to a rank who was armed with a shotgun in an attempt to take his firearm. A round was discharged that struck Bishop in the neck, police release said.
But some Albouystown residents alleged that the policeman deliberately shot Bishop while he was sitting in the police vehicle.
Residents told Kaieteur News that a policewoman, known to them as ‘Big Wig,’ was at a ‘fish fry’ in Hill Street, Albouystown, when Bishop threw a Guinness bottle at her. He also reportedly struck the rank, who was said to be his ex-girlfriend.
Kaieteur News was told that the injured policewoman made a report at the Brickdam Police Station. She then accompanied about three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pitbull bus.”
According to some residents, ranks began to assault the suspect 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 Bishop.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Bishop and two others had appeared in court a few weeks ago for allegedly hijacking a businessman’s car in Cross Street, Alexander Village. They 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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