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Oct 28, 2014 News
Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard, has completed his perusal of the report on last September’s fatal shooting of Adrian Bishop in Albouystown at the hands of a police rank.
He is to hand the document over to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) this week. Kennard explained that although he will send the file with his comments, the final outcome rests with the DPP.
The file contains ballistic expert’s report and the post mortem report, which will be crucial to the DPP’s decision. It reportedly also contains statements by the rank who shot Bishop and by civilians who claimed that the shooting was deliberate.
Bishop, 28, was shot in the neck on Saturday, September 20, last, 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 attempted to take away a shotgun from one of the ranks. A round was discharged and struck Bishop in the neck, police said.
But several Albouystown residents alleged that the policeman deliberately shot Bishop while the civilian 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 assaulted the woman, who was said to be his ex-girlfriend.
The policewoman made a report at the Brickdam Police Station. She then accompanied three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pit bull 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 Bishop.
He 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. 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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