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Aussie wounded in bar attack flies out
By Stabroek staff | February 8, 2010 in Local News After spending almost a month in a hospital bed Australian Jason Montgomery, shot during the robbery at Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant, boarded a flight for home yesterday.


Jason Montgomery
Montgomery, 36, sustained a gunshot wound in the abdomen. On the night of January 8, when three gunmen stormed the bar on David Street, Kitty, Montgomery was one of two patrons who were injured. A waitress, Kulmattie Singh, was fatally shot in the head.

After the incident, Montgomery was admitted to the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He was released from the GPH three days later on January 12. Montgomery was admitted the same day to a private hospital. He was a patient of that hospital’s Intensive Care Unit since January 12.

Mark Xavier, the injured man’s business associate, told Stabroek News via telephone that the Australian boarded a flight yesterday morning; the first of several which will take him home.

Montgomery’s parents had been trying for several weeks to have the man flown home.

Xavier said that recently the Australian has had several relapses and was overjoyed to finally be going home where he will have access to better medical treatment.

“He’s happy,” Xavier said of his associate yesterday, “as we were driving to the airport he said to me that he’s feeling better already just knowing that he’s on his way home.”

Montgomery’s family, Xavier said, hired a medical escort from a Florida-based company to take the man to Australia. The man will change flights at Trinidad, London, Dubai and finally Singapore before he reaches his homeland.

There have since been no developments in the police’s investigations. Two men had been arrested but were later released after a failed identification parade. Crime Chief Seelall Persaud had said that police were able to obtain footage of the robbery from a hidden security camera. The footage was expected to be enhanced by the police’s Information Technology Department. However, they have to date been unable to glean any information from the recording.

Well, Guyana is a dangerous place for tourist not familiar with high rates of street crime.

This is a place for South American tourists who know how to look after themselves, but not for Aussies.


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Well, Guyana is a dangerous place for tourist not familiar with high rates of street crime.

GUyana is a dangerous place for even Guyanese mush less tourist

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Originally posted by Noel:

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Well, Guyana is a dangerous place for tourist not familiar with high rates of street crime.

GUyana is a dangerous place for even Guyanese mush less tourist

waa de rass yu doing dare den..yu jackass

I try to get a visa to go to Haiti and they refuse me

You are a dunce Noel, the man survived 1 month after severe gunshot wounds to the abdomen. In fact the Guyanese doctors are to be commended for saving his life after what ever drug runnings he was involved with that caused him to be shot.

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:
the Guyanese PRIVATE doctors are to be commended for saving his life after G/twn Hospital botched it.

Thats more like it. Sorry for the edit drugb.

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Originally posted by caribj:

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:
the Guyanese PRIVATE doctors are to be commended for saving his life after G/twn Hospital botched it.

Thats more like it. Sorry for the edit drugb.

The operative word is Guyanese. And it is a known fact that the same doctors who work at GPH also practice at private hospitals. I don't understand why you seem to get so much joy in anything negative about Guyana. You must be an aFC supporter, a bunch of incompetent clowns.

Shot Aussie taken to London hospital AAP

A QUEENSLAND man shot by bandits in a South American bar is being treated in a London hospital.
Jason Montgomery, 36, of Rainbow Beach, was in his local bar in Georgetown in Guyana for after work drinks on January 8 when three bandits entered and shot him in the chest.

The bar attendant was killed and another man was also wounded in the attack.

Mr Montgomery, who had been in Guyana briefly for work purposes, was due to depart the country on February 4, however the plans were cancelled at the last minute when his condition took a turn for the worse.

His mother Sandy Brosnan said he was now in a hospital in London.

She said her son was being treated for pneumonia and a number of infections.

"The air escort evacuation personnel got him on a commercial flight," she said.

"He was supposed to come through to Australia after a rest in London and arrive tonight, but that won't happen now.

"He has serious infections and they are treating him intravenously and done lots of tests.

"All his flights have been put on hold until his condition is stable, but he's certainly in a far, far better place."
She said she was relieved to know her son was in London, but hoped he could be flown to Brisbane and admitted to a hospital there soon.

"We are just taking one day at a time and that's all we can do," she said.