Aunt of policeman involved in Colwyn Harding’s matter terrorised at her home
AN aunt of policeman, Devendra Singh, accused of sodomising Colwyn Harding, was terrorised at her Mon Repos home on Friday night by two unknown men.The aunt, Leila Singh, said she is fearful for her life and that of her family after two men believed to be armed, stormed into her Mon Repos, East Coast of Demerara home on Friday night. The mother of four told the Guyana Chronicle that it happened at about 18:30 hrs on Friday night during a power outage as she was on the landline telephone talking to her sister. She said she got up to secure the back door of the upper flat of her house when two men appeared on the verandah.
The woman added that she realised something was about to happen and she ran into the house to the front verandah where her teenage daughter was lying on a bed and managed to shut the door.
The 52-year old woman explained that the men began calling her to come into the house where they were but she refused, after which she climbed onto the verandah and tried to alert to her neighbours by shouting.
Her attempt to attract help failed as a result of loud music being played in the neighbourhood but she telephoned a relative who contacted her husband and he hurried home after which the intruders escaped.
Singh said that while she was on the verandah she knew that the men were up to some trouble since they kept telling her to get in the house and if she continues to scream they would kill her.
She is certain that the men were not there to rob or take away anything of value since they were in the house for sometime and did not attempt to do so but their presence was to drive fear/harm to her and her family.
The woman said that the men were of African descent and had a bright torchlight and disguised their faces with what appeared to be stockings.
She pointed out that one was slim built while the other was stocky and she believed that the men were armed.
Singh told this publication that the men escaped by running through her neighbour’s unfenced yard at the rear of her property and left in a waiting white Toyota Raum vehicle, which was parked in the back street. The woman said that she was prepared to jump the verandah with her 16-year-old daughter, which is located in the upper flat of the two-storey house, if she had to because she did not want to be raped or killed by the men, who invaded her home.
She stated that the men were there for a reason but they did not get through because she refused to adhere to their demands and luckily her husband arrived home after which, the police and members of the Community Policing Group (CPG) responded but by then the men were gone.
It appears as though the house was being monitored by person (s) because after the incident neighbours related that they observed a heavily tinted Toyota IST parked in the back street of the village on Friday afternoon, she explained.
At the time, she was at home with her daughter while, the rest of the family members including her husband and son were out.
Singh said that Devendra Singh, 29, used to reside at her home as he grew up there and she is being targeted because he is under close arrest at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, pending investigations into an allegation made that he physically assaulted and sodomised a detainee at the Timehri Police Station, East Bank of Demerara, in November 2013, when the man was held for break and enter and larceny.
She told the Guyana Chronicle that she does not believe that her relative is capable of such a dastardly act because he is religious, straight forward and is not violent and never displayed any such behaviour.
