Gay Man Beaten And Left To Die In Sandy Gully, St Andrew

As the unraveling of our homeless and their friends sadly continues for the past 8 years since the closure of the only safe house for MSM/transgender persons it is hard to watch all this go down as we sit helpless while powerful agencies simply do and say nothing of import but readily use the same homeless populations as cannon fodder for HIV prevention and LGBT advocacy.

Now comes this:

A young man had to be rescued from the Sandy Park Gully, in St Andrew, where he was left to die early Saturday morning. The man was said to be beaten and thrown in the gully by a group of men.

He was left with wounds to his head and other sections of his body. “First me think it was a girl,” Lance Brown, a man who saw him in the gully Saturday morning, told the news team.

Brown said he thought the person was dead until he went down into the gully and saw that he was still breathing.

Newsbug published these photos:

According to Brown, the victim said he had stopped in the area to make a call when he was attacked by a group of men who, after savagely beating him, threw him into the gully.

Brown — who came upon the man in the gully around 7:30 am — called the Matilda’s Corner Police.

He was taken from the gully by a team from the Half-Way Tree Fire Station which was summoned to the scene.

The man was rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies for treatment.

Sadly this is where the public sympathy dies as persons are up in arms on this one, even on radio it was the subject of a heated discussion on FAME FM and elsewhere and hence the good end up suffering for the bad as well. So called LGBT activists who are in support of not addressing the issues also find it legit to continue to hold a position of denial as they are all deemed bad.

Sandy Gully has factored as a migratory tributary for many populations including homeless msm/transgender so I am not surprised just perplexed; from my days sharing an apartment where the gully ran directly behind the flat and by the bridge at Marketplace (one two lane bridge then) the guys used to reside sometimes under it and knowing I lived at the complex they would walk up the gully so long it was dry and call us from in it which annoyed the hell out of me. Myself and my flat mate then the late Donald Thompson devised a pebble on the window strategy for communication and we ended up after temporarily housing a chef from Maxfield Avenue who was forcibly evicted distribute food he would take home that was unsold to the guys.

Many of the 'monsters' nowadays were not so in the days of the safe house, the usual disciplinary challenges and head bumping would obtain as in any shared living space, head bumping is bound to happen. 

Only days ago we saw an electrocution matter and now this.

Where will it end?

Peace & tolerance

H