By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Friday, January 27 2012

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BITTEN: Bryan Barrington who was held recently for allegedly plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister is being guarded by police officers at the San...

POLICE officers allegedly made a dog from the K-9 unit bite the private parts (penis) of a former detainee who was yesterday arrested along with his wife at the family’s home in South Oropouche.

Angry relatives of Bryan “Barry” Barrington and his wife Nadia Baboolal-Barrington, of Partap Trace, described the ordeal as inhumane and unjust, accusing police officers of targeting the family “for no reasons.”

Barrington, an ex soldier was one of 16 men who were detained and subsequently released in connection with the recent assassination plot against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Cabinet ministers.

The injured man was later seen by Newsday at the San Fernando General Hospital, where he received medical attention. Barrington, was subsequently taken to the San Fernando Police Station and police investigators said narcotics charges were expected to be laid.

Relatives yesterday said they were baffled over the incident and now have to take care of the couple’s three month-old baby girl Ruhaniyah and Baboolal-Barrington’s daughter Sumiyah, 11.

Sumiyah explained she and her mother were ordered to sit in the living room while two police officers, one with the dog, went to search a bedroom with Barrington. The baby was asleep in another bedroom during the commotion.

“I heard him bawl out real hard but he was not crying. One of my aunts who was downstairs called out to find out if police was beating him and he said, ‘No girl I got bite from the dog’. Then he came out bleeding and blood was all over the house,” the Standard Four pupil said.

The house was ransacked and blood was seen on the ground of the house and even on the roadway.

She added that the dog handler then walked downstairs to the back of the house and showed a female relative a “middle finger”.

The child’s grandmother Majorie John-Williams, who lives downstairs the house at Partap Trace, cried as she recalled the incident.

She told Newsday that at about 6 am a party of approximately 20 police officers, armed with firearms, entered the compound and began pounding on the door.

Despite numerous requests to find out why the officers were entering the house, the grandmother said she was told their presence did not concern her. “I kept asking them what was going on and one officer who identified himself as Supt Nanan said it had nothing to do with me. What do they have with me? This is my pain and these tears have to fall somewhere. I cannot take it no more. I do not know how much my heart could take,” said John-Williams as tears rolled down her face.

She added as relatives were kept outside, they heard a loud scream. “I immediately thought they killed him. Who is speaking out for this injustice? This child is still being breast fed. How am I going to take care of her while they (police) have her in custody? They stayed here for about three hours searching” John-Williams added.

She accused police officers of trying to project her son-in-law as a lawbreaker. “He was preparing bakes and salt fish to go and sell in Princes Town. They are framing him with something but we don’t know what it is as yet.

“We are living a simple life. One officer left with a kitchen towel which he used to wipe off the blood on the dog’s mouth,” said the grandmother.

Police yesterday confirmed the dog bit Barrington who was not seriously injured. They further claimed he had narcotics in his underpants at the time of the incident.