Mother and brother of slain Berbice teen charged with assaulting cops, disorderly behaviour
Colwyn Henry and Gail Johnson at the Sparendaam Police Station on Tuesday night (Photos sourced from Nigel Hughes’ Facebook page)
December 20, 2020
Two relatives of the murdered teen cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry were on Friday faced with five charges in wake of an altercation with Guyana Police Force ranks at the Sparendaam Police Station.
Gail Johnson and her son, Colwyn Henry, who are the mother and brother of Joel Henry, were jointly charged with two counts of assaulting a peace officer, and one count of disorderly behaviour. Johnson was also separately charged with resisting a police officer and obstructing a peace officer, while Henry was separately charged with failing to produce a driver’s licence, and resisting a peace officer. Johnson and Henry, of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice, were each granted their release on a total of $30,000 bail for three of their charges and self-b
Colwyn Henry at the Sparendaam police station (Photo courtesy of Nigel Hughes)
December 17, 2020
The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday strongly condemned what it said was the “unprovoked brutality” suffered by the family of slain cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry at the hands of elements of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) at the Sparendaam Police Station on Tuesday night.
The GHRA said it rejects the “self-serving version” of the events released by the GPF. The police said that the ruckus began after Joel’s brother Colwyn could not produce his licence and defied instructions from the police all the while hurling profanities.