Crabwood Creek farmer critical after “thrashing” from gang of seven
A 24-year-old Crabwood Creek farmer was on Sunday evening reportedly attacked by a gang of seven men, leaving him nursing serious injuries.
Cheddi Eshwar Sawh of 97 Grant 2767, Crabwood Creek, is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital with a severe head injury sustained during the assault.
Kaieteur News was informed by one of the man’s relatives that after spending a few hours at his girlfriend’s house, Sawh, while on his way home along the Crabwood Creek public road, was confronted by a gang of men who dealt him blows about his body and head before escaping.
According to the relative, an eyewitness revealed that Sawh was mostly beaten in the head during the ordeal.
Relatives are of the belief that the farmer was mistaken for someone else, while explaining that a few houses away from where the attack occurred is a “liquor shop”, “Saturday night dem (assailants) and a boy had a fight at the rum shop, one ah de boy get beat up, so Sunday he come back with he crew,” the relative recounted.
An injured Cheddi Sawh lying helpless after the savage beating
“When we check back, de boy dem fight with at the rum shop Saturday night and he (Sawh) look nuff alike, so dem think is the boy and dem beat he (Sawh) up”. The home of the victim’s girlfriend is located some four houses away from the “liquor shop”.
From reports gathered, four of the attackers names were disclosed, however “dem people ain’t know the other three name, but them say if dem see dem, dem can identify dem”, a relative said.
According to a police source, investigators are presently looking for the other accused, since searches at their known address have come up empty-handed. This publication also understands that Sawh was at the “liquor shop” Saturday evening, but it is unclear whether he was a part of the fracas. Meanwhile, police have confirmed that one person has since been placed under arrest.