DAUGHTER BASHED BY POLICE THUGS

Last night, my daughter Lisa went out to celebrate the end of the school year. She was 17 years old and a top student in grade 9 at her school. She went out with her girl friends. I was worried about her as she did not leave a message as to where she was going.

Then she did not come home at all. I stayed awake all night. She did not answer her phone but a male voice said he did not know her. That causes fear to a loving father.

I finally slept at about 4.am. When I awoke she was in her bed. She had been severely bashed. Her face was swollen and her mouth was puffed up. There was a massive mark on her cheek up through her left eye.

She would not speak until she had slept as she could not speak. It seems she had been bashed and kicked by a gang of scumbag police at Waigani police station. This is the second time a person I know had been hashed in the last two weeks.

My daughter was cross with my questions. My only concern was whether or not she had been raped. She had 12 hours from the time of rape to go to the hospital for ARV medicine against HIV infection. She said she had not been raped.

It seems she had been with a group of friends at Waigani outside the Talio shop when a fight broke out with a boy in the group and a stranger. Neighbours phoned the police who arrived. My daughter Lisa had tried to stop the fight and explained to one of the boys. She is like her dad.

But the police arrested them all and took them down to the police station. She said that one policeman wanted to grab her and put her into a cell by herself. She had read about women being raped by police in cells. He wanted to grab her breasts but she hit him.

He called to his mates and six of them then bashed her. One held her by the throat, causing deep fingernails tears in her neck. She said she was given full punches to the face to the extent that she cannot open her left eye. She was kicked on the body by men in boots.

She escaped to the women's toilet and locked herself in. One policeman was trying to stab her with a bush knife. He cut her toes. They dragged her out and she threw herself on the ground in front of a policeman and begged him to save her. He stopped the bashers.

They are lucky that her father did not arrive at the time of the bashing with a bush knife. He would be dead now but so would members of the thug squad. Let them come and bash him now. His face will appear on the front page of the local newspaper.

POLICE STATEMENT OF JOHN WINOL

My name is John Winol and live at Pitpit Street North Waigani on the property of Geoffrey Nape. My wife is his sister. On Thursday, 28^th November 2015 I was at a celebration on the Nape property.

I was standing on the Street with my friend JK Bal who was drunk. He had just given me money that he owed me when his wife arrived with the police from Waigani Station. She had her husband arrested for not giving her money.

I was not arrested as I had done nothing wrong, but told my friend I would go to the police station to help him. It was my choice to go with him and support him. He had been arrested but not charged.

Suddenly the police came to us at the station. They did not speak but bashed me. I had come to escort my friend. There were about 10 police who stood around bashing and kicking me for about an hour. They hit me with a stick.

They did not bash my arrested friend. They broke my trousers and stole my wallet containing K758. My right hand was damaged and I was punched in the face. They had been told by the wife to get my wallet.

The police put me in the cells and locked me up until my family came to bail me out. That was not bail as I had not been charged with anything. Nor was my friend charged as we had done nothing wrong.

This was just a family matter which the police had brutally taken over. My friend Bal will confirm that I had done nothing wrong. The police kept the money.

Signed .....................................      Witness  ...............................

Date: ..........November 2015