Arrest soon mob beating

On Thursday, a group of villagers held Nottingham, 28, at Hermitage Road, Macaulay near R’s Hardware and severely beat him. They pulled down Nottingham’s trousers, tied both his hands and feet and beat him for allegedly attempting to stealing a truck. Onlookers recorded the incident which went viral on social media. Cpl Brian Singh and other investigators at St Margaret’s Police Station later discovered Nottingham did not steal the truck as the villagers had assumed,

Police said the original owner sold the truck to two different men, one at Barrackpore and the other at Claxton Bay. Last year, the Barrackpore owner reported the truck missing,

Thursday’s commotion started when Nottingham, of Chaguanas, and a friend went Claxton Bay to collect a truck for the owner at Barrackpore,

On arrival, Nottingham and his friend asked to test drive the truck. But his friend drove off with the truck and villagers cornered and beat him,

The incident caused a traffic pile-up and when police arrived, they had to disburse the crowd,

Police took him to the Couva Health Facility and doctors transferred him to San Fernando General Hospital. He was treated and discharged,

Police said once arrested and positively identified, the villagers would be charged with assault,

Cpl Singh is investigating,