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May 06, 2017 News
Relatives of the woman Special Constable Shendel George, who was found dead from a
gunshot wound to the throat on Thursday night, at Lima, Essequibo, are suspicious that she was the victim of foul play.
A police release stated that Special Constable George was on duty at the main gate at the Caricom Rice Mill armed with a service revolver and six matching rounds.
Some time around 17:30hrs, George left her post and proceeded to the toilet. Her body was later discovered with a gunshot wound to the throat, while her firearm, along with five live rounds and a spent shell was found next to her.
Bridget Alphonso, the victim’s mother, was reportedly the second person to discover her body. She insists that her daughter’s service revolver was not initially near the body.
Mrs. Alphonso said that she usually visits her daughter in the afternoons.
“I does normally check on her when she working, I would carry snacks and ask her what time she coming off.
“So me going and buy something for my daughter to eat and something urged me to go to Caricom.
“Sometimes, I would see her looking through the window when I get there, but on the afternoon in question I didn’t see her.” Mrs. Alphonso said that she thrice asked a male security guard where her daughter was, but got three different responses.
“I stand up for like five to nine minutes. When I asked first where my daughter was he said she gone out. The second time he said she gone somewhere around the compound.
“After 15 minutes I ask he the third time where my daughter, and he said ‘She must be deh in de toilet, leh me go check.”
Mrs. Alphonso said that in two minutes the security guard came back and said, “Your daughter fall down.”
“The man followed me up to a certain distance, and then he send me up a step, then he walk back to the gate without rendering any assistance or calling anyone.
“When me reach the door me saw my daughter with her hands out.”
The mother said the first thing she looked for was her daughter’s firearm, but saw no weapon.
“I run down stairs back, went to security and asked where the gun, he said he don’t know where the gun and he gotta look for it. On the table was the gun socket, but no gun was there.”
The mother said she then went to the Anna Regina Police Station to file a report, and when she returned to the scene she saw the firearm near her daughter’s body.
“I asked the officer how da gun reach deh. One of the police replied this looks like foul play.”
An aunt of Special Constable George told Kaieteur News that her niece had spent Wednesday night at her home, and showed no sign of being in a suicidal mood.
“Shendel isn’t the suicide type. Normally if something is wrong she brings it forth immediately.
“We talked until 4.00 a.m. the morning, but nothing came up that seemed unusual.” “Mother and father said before they left everything was okay. They said that she was looking at the television as usual.”
There were some suggestions that ‘sibling rivalry’ may have prompted the woman to take her life, but the victim’s mother refuted this suggestion.
The aunt also alleged that Shendel was threatened by a colleague.
The individual allegedly told the Special Constable that if she doesn’t leave the job she “would have to leave it the way her cousin did.”
The cousin was killed about a year ago whilst on the job as well.
Shendel George’s body is at the Suddie Public Hospital awaiting a postmortem examination.
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