Three days ago, a domestic worker of West Bank Demerara (WBD) reported to the Brickdam Police Station that her friend from Pheonix Park, WBD was kidnapped while they were at the Timehri Bus Park, Georgetown.
She told investigators that her friend was carried away after she was hauled into a taxi at about 04:20hrs. The woman also claimed to be in receipt of a text message from her friend’s phone, which read, “you have to come and find her or I will kill her”.
Following the report, ranks, two days later, went to a home at No1 Village, Corentyne, Berbice where the alleged kidnapped victim was located in the company of a man from Kuru Kuru, Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
They were both arrested, detained and questioned by investigators. The alleged victim – among other things – stated that she did not send any message to anyone’s phone and that she was not kidnapped.
She also stated that her male friend asked her to accompany him to Berbice which she did voluntarily and whilst in Berbice, she learnt from her mother that her friend told her that she was kidnapped.
She stated that she told her mother she was not kidnapped and that she went to Berbice of her own free will. The man she was with also gave a written statement supporting her story.
This is the third such report that investigators of Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters, Eve Leary have been working on in the space of three days that have proven to be false.
Yesterday, this publication reported that an 18-year-old, as she was being interviewed by police regarding her abduction, confessed that it was all a lie. She also told them that she suffers from depression.
The young woman, whose identity the police has not revealed, initially told cops that she was abducted at Jimbo Bridge, Grove, East Bank Demerara about 13:00hrs on March 21, 2022 by persons unknown.
However, in actuality, she contacted a friend seeking a place to stay for a few days “to cool her head”. Upon her return, she told cops that she was kidnapped.
On Sunday last, detectives found 28-year-old Rohan Kirpaul Mangra hiding in a Hadfield Street, Georgetown hotel, days after it was alleged that he had been kidnapped.
Mangra was relaxing inside a room at the hotel with another man when ranks visited to question staffers. His relatives had alleged that he went missing on March 15, last after leaving his Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara home to hang out with his friends.
