Thirty one year old Alwyn Burns, a barber and transmission mechanic of mile
twenty one on the Northern Highway was limping and breathing heavily when he
appeared in magistrate’s court today. He had been charged with aggravated
assault with a firearm. When Magistrate Aretha Ford asked the accused why he
was panting, Alwyn Burns instructed his attorney Ellis Arnold to tell the court
that he had been beaten by the police and that he is on medication.
Burns also reported that he believes his knee cap had also been shattered.
He says that since Sunday he has been trying to get the police to take him to
the hospital after he was detained but that they refused. So after Alwyn Burns
pleaded not guilty to the offence. But he was nevertheless remanded to Belize
Central Prison until October first. But magistrate ford ordered that before
he goes to jail he must be taken to the hospital for treatment.
Alwyn Burns was charged following a July thirteenth assault in Biscayne Village.
The complainant, Sandy Cabral, a mechanic reported that burns pointed a firearm
at him. Burns contends that it was Cabral who attacked him with a knife.
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