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Aug 10, 2015 News
Yesterday marked two years since Patriena Nicholson left a police location and vanished without trace, leaving relatives still wondering about her fate. They are questioning if they ever will have any answers, since an individual who may have those clues is now dead. That person remains the prime suspect in the murder of another woman.
It was on Friday August 9, 2013, that policewoman Patriena Nicholson, dressed in a brown blouse, blue jeans and black sandals, left her post at the Police Mounted Branch. It is claimed that she told her colleagues that she was going “to wash,” while others claim that she told them she was heading home to drop off a package. Then she disappeared.
Shellon Nicholson, who is Patriena’s sister, said that a man with whom Shellon had a relationship informed her about her sibling’s disappearance. The man, a former policeman named Royston Waldron, at the time employed as a taxi driver, made a report at the Kitty Police Station.
At around the same time that her sister had left work on August 9, Shellon received a call from Patriena’s cell phone, but when she answered no one responded. Shellon said her sister’s phone rang out when she tried to reach her an hour later. Subsequently, all calls went to voicemail.
Suspicion fell on Shellon’s boyfriend, Royston Waldron, who had an unsavory past. The policewoman started a relationship with him around 2006, and they had even lived together for about two years.
But in June 2008, Waldron was arrested, charged and remanded for harbouring two gunmen who had a $60M bounty on their heads. He was also charged for armed robbery.
At the time, Patriena was stationed at the office of the then Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene. Following her boyfriend’s arrest, she was transferred to the Police Mounted Branch.
During the period of his incarceration, Patriena moved to Lot 44 Austin Street, Campbellville, where Patriena’s sister, Shellon Nicholson, also lived. With her boyfriend still incarcerated, the policewoman struck up an acquaintance with another man, who was a deportee.
It is alleged that sometime around June 2013, the now-released Royston Waldron saw Patriena and her new boyfriend walking together. Patriena would later claim that Waldron dragged her into his car. She filed a report at the Kitty Police Station, but reportedly only requested that the man be given a stern warning.
Shellon Nicholson says that police arrested Patriena’s boyfriend, but were forced to release him after 72 hours. He was never rearrested. Investigators also took a statement from the missing policewoman’s new boyfriend, but he was never detained.
Shellon claims that her sister was also acquainted with a third man with whom she sometimes travelled to Suriname. She claimed that this individual has not been seen since her sister’s disappearance.
Shellon Nicholson says she is unsure which of these individuals knows about her sister’s fate.
Ms. Nicholson had told Kaieteur News she doesn’t believe that police are doing enough to locate her sibling. Whenever she checks at the Kitty Police Station, ranks there reportedly ask her if she “has any leads.”
In July, 2014, she became even more concerned that her sister might have been the victim of foul play after another female acquaintance of Waldron’s disappeared. The victim was 34-year-old Nyozi Goodman, a teacher at the prestigious St. Stanislaus College.
On July 6, 2014, Waldron reportedly dropped Goodman to the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, where some of her students were participating in the Inter-Secondary School Basketball Championships.
After the game, Ms. Goodman reportedly told her students that she would be staying behind, as she expected someone to pick her up and take her home to William Street, Campbellville.
Police believe that the ‘someone’ was Royston Waldron. She promptly vanished.
Detectives said Waldron reportedly admitted to taking Goodman to the National Gymnasium, but denied returning to pick her up.
In late July, 2014, the skeletal remains of a woman were found in a bushy lot at Pattensen, on the East Coast of Demerara. DNA tests would later confirm that the victim was Nyozi Goodman.
Prior to the identification, police kept Waldron under surveillance. They were reportedly planning to have the Lot 48, Public Road Kitty resident charged once it was confirmed that the Pattensen remains were Goodman’s. Meanwhile, it is believed that Waldron and some of his acquaintances were involved in armed robberies. It was alleged that the ex-policeman and two other men robbed a businessman at gunpoint in Georgetown on October 11, 2014. It is believed that on October 22, 2014, the gang also robbed a woman at gunpoint in Avenue of the Republic, shortly after the victim had left a commercial bank.
But on November 14, 2014, police intercepted Waldron’s car at Alexander and Thomas Streets, Kitty, with the suspect and two men who were wanted for questioning in connection with a number of armed robberies. Police allege that “gunfire was opened” at the ranks, who returned fire, killing Waldron. According to police, the ranks recovered an unlicenced .32 pistol with four rounds and a spent shell from the slain Waldron.
Shellon Nicholson, Patriena sister, suggested that Waldron’s death was ‘karma.’ “Praise God that my prayers have been answered…only those who have lost a loved one can understand.”
Meanwhile, the family still hopes to know what exactly happened to Shellon.
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