The Guyana Police Force (GFP) must immediately issue a wanted bulletin for the arrest of Assistant Commissioner, Khalid Mandall, who has been sent on administrative leave following the events that unfolded last month at the Double Day Hotel, Tuschen, where 11-year-old Adriana Younge was found dead in a pool. At least, this is what the Opposition Leader and head of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton, is advocating.
Norton said that Mandall must be pulled in for creating public mischief and attempting to pervert and obstruct the course of justice, since it was under his purview that the inaccurate missive was shared by the police force stating that the 11-year-old had left the hotel in a car. But relatives were adamant that the child was still in the hotel. The following day, her body was seen floating in the hotel’s pool – the very one family members, relatives and residents said was searched multiple times. What followed was a fiery protest and demolition of the hotel by angry protestors.
The Opposition Leader also said that the bulletin for Mandall’s arrest is appropriate, citing and drawing a parallel with the recent bulletin that was issued for Tiana Lewis-King, a nursing assistant attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Lewis-King presented herself to the police with her lawyer, a day after she was declared wanted for allegedly creating public mischief and attempting to pervert and obstruct the course of justice. The bulletin stemmed from a voice recording that went viral, with a woman claiming to have been in the room when Adriana Younge’s autopsy was being performed.
“You’re accusing nurse Tiana Lewis King of creating public mischief and attempting to pervert and obstruct the course of justice, then the same thing should occur for the Assistant Commissioner because the Assistant Commission by providing false information can be considered one of the sources of the protest that followed at the Double Day Hotel,” he said.
He added, “And so, if we are to deal with all in a fair way, then Mandal should be charged. I owe no brief for Tiana Lewis-King, but what I do know is that if she is to be charged, then Mandall should be charged because it is a similar act that both of them committed.”
