Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion say that none of the school­boys in­volved in the as­sault of an­oth­er boy on Mon­trose Junc­tion, Ch­agua­nas, last week have been ar­rest­ed, as en­quiries con­tin­ue in­to the in­ci­dent.

A por­tion of the at­tack was record­ed in a 22-sec­ond-long video and post­ed to so­cial me­dia last Wednes­day, which showed stu­dents beat­ing the boy on Mon­trose Junc­tion op­po­site KFC, tem­porar­i­ly block­ing traf­fic.

Dur­ing the at­tack, one of the boys kicked the 14-year-old vic­tim, knock­ing him un­con­scious.

In the video, the dri­ver of a near­by car did not see the boy crouched near the front of the ve­hi­cle and tried to dri­ve off, but pressed against him be­fore be­ing stopped by passers-by.

Ac­cord­ing to a TTPS me­dia re­lease last Thurs­day, the at­tack re­port­ed­ly stemmed from “ban­ter” via so­cial me­dia.

When con­tact­ed for com­ment yes­ter­day, head of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Snr Supt Rudolph Bhag­wan­deen con­firmed that none of the boys iden­ti­fied as sus­pects in the in­ci­dent were ar­rest­ed as the probe in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ued.

“The of­fi­cers are in the process of record­ing state­ments from wit­ness­es, so we are in the process of do­ing that as well as col­lect­ing med­ical cer­tifi­cates and so on.

“This is some­thing we’re treat­ing very se­ri­ous­ly, and we have spent all week­end work­ing on col­lect­ing these items. In such in­ves­ti­ga­tions, we like to have every­thing in place first be­fore we move to ar­rest any­one.”

Bhag­wan­deen said po­lice were try­ing to con­firm the vic­tim’s iden­ti­ty up to Thurs­day, as fur­ther en­quiries were done by of­fi­cers.