Ak­ile Si­mon

?Mem­bers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) res­cued a 22-year-old woman yes­ter­day, af­ter she was re­port­ed­ly kid­napped and tor­tured by a man.

The in­ci­dent hap­pened in Ca­roni. Kizzy Al­lick, orig­i­nal­ly of Mor­vant, re­mained in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex last night, suf­fer­ing from first de­gree burns about the head, face, chest and oth­er parts of her body. She had been beat­en with the butt of a gun, shot in one of her thighs while her face, chest and oth­er parts of the body were bad­ly burnt. She al­so lost two of her teeth. Po­lice have de­tained a man and a woman for ques­tion­ing. They said the man had been re­leased from prison two weeks ago.

The two were held af­ter of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a car and re­port­ed­ly found Al­lick wrapped in a bed sheet, ly­ing on the back pas­sen­ger seat of the ve­hi­cle. The sus­pects had just left a house at River­side Ex­ten­sion, Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni. Of­fi­cers as­signed to the Ca­roni, Ch­agua­nas and Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion in Port-of-Spain have been crit­i­cised by the vic­tim's rel­a­tives who claimed that those of­fi­cers failed to act on their re­port. Rel­a­tives said they were turned away from all three sta­tions when they at­tempt­ed to re­port Al­lick's ab­duc­tion.

The vic­tim's moth­er Lucy Camp­bell said: "We went to the Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tion, they not do­ing noth­ing, Ch­agua­nas the same thing, and we came to the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion (St Vin­cent Street), they told us they not get­ting in­volve in Ca­roni busi­ness, and we can't come down here and re­port Ca­roni po­lice to them." Camp­bell she was sat­is­fied with the re­sponse re­ceived when she re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to the AKU.