Bandit with party sympathies
Linden London, also known as Blackie, was an ex soldier turned bandit, who is thought to have committed a number of violent crimes. The police declared him a wanted man. Privately they wanted him dead or alive.

Through out the PNC dictatorship he was involved with his criminal gang in robbing many businesses.

He continued this trend after the present government took office.

One case was the America Street cambio robbery on September 22, 1999. In this raid, four heavily armed men carted away millions of dollars from D. Singh and Sons Cambio.

In another incident, two men on January 11, 2000 attacked the National Insurance Scheme headquarters on Brickdam at about 07:15 and carted off $13,000,000. Machine guns and grenades were used to threaten the staff and Blackie was once again suspected.

A recent testimony of a former Berbice serviceman alleged that Blackie might have been working with the knowledge of the top brass in the PNC. If this is true, then how long was there such collaboration? Note that after Blackie met his demise, there was sympathy for him from the PNC camp.

The former President of Guyana, Desmond Hoyte, gave him a state funeral draped with the flag of Guyana.
Thanks
Sutley

APRIL 24, 2004