A twenty-five-year-old contractor who was named as the prime suspect by the Guyana Police Force in the disappearance of eleven-year-old Adriana Younge has filed a one hundred million ($100 M) lawsuit against the state.
The Police Force, through its Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) issued a statement that the eleven-year-old left the hotel in a car for which details on Deon Jeffrey and the car were made public.
The young man was then arrested and detained for several hours. The Guyana Police Force only retracted the statement after Adriana’s body mysteriously appeared in the hotel’s pool less than twenty-four hours after she vanished in the hotel.
Jeffery in court documents filed by his attorney Darren Wade is seeking the court to make some declarations – that his rights to equal protection of the law under Articles 149(D) of the Constitution of Guyana was breached; that his right to liberty was breached; that his right to freedom of movement was breached; and is also seeking a declaration that the Guyana Police Force falsely detained him.
The twenty-five-year-old said since he was accused of being involved in Adriana’s disappearance, he had lost several contracts.
He said a $500,000 for the embankment of a drainage system and casting of a bridge in La Parfaite Harmonie and a $275,000 contract for internal ceiling work in the schoonard Housing Scheme were cancelled.
The second contract, the owner of the house told that he did not want him around his children.
According to the young man the incident left him feeling humiliated and embarrassed.