Police not yet ready to take Lindo Creek suspect to court

Jul 15, 2008 News

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has said that the police are not yet ready to take a suspect in the Lindo Creek massacre of eight miners to court.
This is more than a week after they announced that they have a suspect in the gruesome murders.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday, Persaud said, “We haven’t decided when he is going (to court).”
Prior to the police stating that they had a suspect, Acting Commissioner Henry Greene, had announced that they also have an eyewitness to the murders.
Kaieteur News has since learnt that the eyewitness is the same person the police later referred to as a suspect.
This newspaper tried to contact Commissioner Greene yesterday but a promise to return a telephone call was not honoured.
The cremated remains of eight miners were discovered at their camp at Lindo Creek, in the Upper Berbice River.
The mining camp’s owner, Leonard Arokium, is on record as saying that he believes that the killings were the work of the security forces who were in the area hunting Guyana’s most wanted man Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and members of his gang.
He had indicated that he had received two telephone calls which informed him that some soldiers had attacked his camp and killed his workers.
He is maintaining his position despite the police claiming otherwise.
The police claimed that they were given a detailed account of what transpired, leading to the miners’ deaths.
Acting Commissioner Greene had previously stated that the eyewitness claimed that Rawlins and gang members entered the camp, tied up the miners and proceeded to cook while spending a night there.
Greene said that the eyewitness told investigators that the following morning the miners were shot.
However, one of them did not die immediately and the Rawlins gang then took a hammer and bludgeoned him to death.
There has been strong public apprehension about the local police conducting the investigations since many believe that it will be compromised. Many have been questioning the delay in taking the suspect to court.
Since the discovery of the miners’ remains, there have been visits to the site by forensic investigators from Trinidad, while DNA experts from Jamaica are expected to arrive here to conduct tests with a view to identifying the remains.
But Acting Commissioner Greene had dismissed the apprehension stating that the police will continue to maintain its professionalism with regards to conducting investigations.
He claimed that any outside group will come up with the same findings that the local investigators have unearthed.
“We will show that we continue to be an impartial group and that we will continue to investigate matters as we see it and put the truth and the truth only,” Greene had said.
“So with all our criticisms, with all the pressures we continue to work and those to be rewarded will be rewarded in due course,” he added.
The police will be holding its annual anniversary award ceremony tomorrow and it is expected that ranks who participated in the initial operation that led to the slaying of 17-year-old Otis Fifee, called ‘Mud Up’, at the gang’s hideout at Christmas Falls will be beneficiaries.

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