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Sundays, detainees could receive visits by family members for five minutes in the visiting
area. The findings of the forensic expert of the Special Rapporteur corroborated the
allegations of ill-treatment.
96.
Lucan Francis, aged 21, had been detained at May Pen Police Station for three-anda-half months. He was arrested on 18 November 2009 at his home. During the arrest, the
officers used force and he was beaten in front of his family. He received a blow with a
baton on his ear and fainted. He was taken to the hospital and received four stitches. He was
handcuffed and shackled. Ten days before the visit of the Special Rapporteur, four police
officers searched his cell for phones and marijuana, but they did not find anything. He was
held in a cell together with three other inmates. An officer called “Ghetto” asked him what
he was being charged with and then beat him on his feet, legs and knee with a black steel
baton, which was thinner but longer than a normal baton. He received six blows on the right
knee, which was swollen for three days. The officers conducted searches twice a month,
normally after family visits. The officers also used electroshocks to control the detainees
during the searches. The food and tea were of a very poor quality. Sometimes the detainees
had to defecate on plates because they were not allowed to use the toilet. His cell was
infested with cockroaches.
97.
A.T., aged 24, remandee, had been detained at May Pen Police Station since 11
August 2008. In early February his cell, which he shared with five other inmates, was
searched by police officers. The detainees had to wait outside the cell during the search. An
officer came out of the cell with a blunt instrument and asked for the owner of the object.
None of the detainees had been aware that such an object had been in the cell. Three
officers, including “Jumpy Brown” and Officer Grant started beating them while four other
officers stood by watching. He was beaten with batons on his shoulder and his back and
received a blow on the eye which bled. He was called into the cell and told to kneel down.
Again the officers wanted to know who the object belonged to. When he did not answer,
Officer Young applied electric shocks to him with a new black instrument of 10 x 5
centimetres. The officer applied the instrument six times on his naked torso, each time
repeating the question. After the first shock to his abdomen he fell on his side and was
shocked on his left side. Officer Young told him to get back on his knees. He could feel the
electric current in his stomach. He was taken to the hospital because his eye was bleeding.
He told the doctor about the beating and the electric shocks but nothing happened. These
kinds of searches took place once or twice a month and took place in a mostly violent
manner. There was a particularly abusive team who conducted the searches. He had been
ill-treated five time since he arrived at May Pen Police Station. He was beaten with fists
once. In addition, the detainees had to wait for months if they requested to go to a hospital.
The officers often turned back the food the visitors brought. There had been a recent lack of
water.
98.
Jason Rose, aged 19, had been detained on 14 February 2010 at home. The police
had kicked in the door of his home; they were looking for a gun. He and a girl who was
present were beaten by ten officers for approximately ten minutes. Officer Grant punched
his chest and put a black cloth over his head. He was slapped in the face and on the ears.
The officers used guns, torches and batons to beat them. Both the girl and he were taken to
the police station. Because the girl was only 17, he was accused of carnal abuse.
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