Spanish-speaking bandits dropped knife, cigarettes in victim’s car.
– cops allegedly failed to find them
By Michael Jordan
The Spanish-speaking bandits who stabbed and slashed Shon Smith, left a knife and a bloodstained pack of cigarettes in his car.
Relatives are claiming that detectives reportedly missed these vital clues that might have helped them to identify Smith’s vicious attackers.
Cigarettes left in Smith’s car after the attack
The injured man’s family has shared pictures of a knife, with handle snapped off, and a pack of cigarettes with Big Smith News Watch.
The broken knife found in Smith’s car after his attack
They said that the items were on the floor of the car when they uplifted the vehicle from the police at Leonora Police Station.
A female relative was emphatic that neither knife nor cigarettes belonged to Smith, who has since been discharged from the hospital.
The man and his family are of the opinion that investigators did not dust the vehicle for fingerprints, a relative said. The presence of black smudges left by fingerprint experts would have been evident had this been done.
Since then, the vehicle has been washed and used to transport the injured man to hospital for further treatment.
On Tuesday, police arrested 41 male Venezuelan nationals from squatting communities at Ruby Backdam, Greenwich Park, Peter Street and Parika First Koker, East Bank Essequibo. Police said Smith was shown photographs of the detained men but was unable to identify them.
An injured Shon Smith at the hospital
Shon Smith, 46, was chopped multiple times during the early hours of Saturday, November 11, by five Spanish speaking men who had hired him while he was at Parika Junction, to take them to Ruby Backdam, East Bank Essequibo.
The wound Shon Smith was left with after being attacked
Smith was also dragged from his Toyota Premio and slashed at the back of his neck. The brutal attack only ceased when he pretended to be dead.
The bandits fled with his cellphone and a large sum of cash.
Smith staunched some of the bleeding by wrapping his shirt around his neck.
He then drove to a nearby house, and was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital.
