André Williams, STAR Writer

A man who claimed he was beaten and pistol whipped by the police causing a deep wound over his eyes, is now seeking justice.

The victim of the attack, 26-year-old Oshane Kelly, contacted THE STAR after filing a report with the Inspectorate of Constabulary relating to the abuse meted out to him on the afternoon of August 10.

The incident reportedly took place in his Maxfield Avenue community, in full view of others who he said begged for his life to be spared.

He said, "I was involved in a little argument with a girl, we a gamble and she come in the yard and a cause ruption. She start style me up and mi answer her and push off her face, she chuck mi back and still a argue so mi jus walk her out."

He said what happened next took him by surprise.

Kelly said, "She go call her police cousin say mi use gun buss off her face, within two minutes a police team pull up, dem come to me and ask weh di gun deh, by time mi fi say which gun, officer? him thump mi two time ina mi face, the next one run on with the gun and lick mi over my right eye buss it up, mi drop a ground."

Taken one side

Kelly told THE STAR that while he was on the ground, he saw one of the policemen take a gun out his pocket and fire three shots.

He told our news team he felt as if they were going to put the gun on him.

Kelly said, "At this time the girl weh call dem run come down to where we were and said, 'Mi never say him have no gun', and the policeman hiss him teeth and say 'so weh you call mi and tell mi say'."

THE STAR learnt that during this time, Kelly was taken one side by one of the policemen who told him what was said to them in relation to him having a gun and asked him if he wanted them to take him to hospital.

Kelly told THE STAR that he felt that if people from the community were not on hand it would have been a different tale.

He said that one of the officers has since apologised to him but he is not satisfied.

When our news team contacted the Inspectorate of Constabulary, the officer to whom the report was made confirmed to receiving such information and said that an investigation will follow.

Kelly said since filing the report he is yet to hear back from the inspectorate.

THE STAR gathered that the policemen at the centre of the incident are attached to the Hunts Bay Police Station.

Efforts to speak with the head of the St. Andrew South Police Division proved futile.