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Kwame McCoy seeking $150 million from media houses
Press Liaison to the President, Kwame McCoy, yesterday moved to the High Court before Chief Justice Ian Chang against Kaieteur News, Prime News and Enrico Woolfood of Capitol News.
Kwame McCoy
McCoy who is being represented by Attorneys-at-Law Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick managed to secure a temporary injunction wherein the Chief Justice ordered that the named defendants refrain from further publishing words or images that have the effect of insinuating or suggesting that Kwame McCoy is involved in acts of child molestation and sexual predation on minors until the determination of a summons to continue injunction.
McCoy is also seeking damages in excess of $50M from each of the named defendants for what he calls libel.
The matter is returnable on September 29.
According to McCoy the named defendants, during the month of September, maliciously and deliberately published limited as well as inaccurate information which was intended to suggest on his part, acts of sexual predation, procurement and child molestation.
According to McCoy on Saturday September 19 he issued a statement but notwithstanding, and in aggravation of damages, “I will contend that the said words or similar words were falsely, willfully and maliciously reported.”
In the document filed in the High Court yesterday McCoy stated, “My character and reputation both generally and as Press and Publicity Officer attached to the Office of the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and a member of the Commission on the Rights of a Child, in particular, have been seriously damaged and discredited, and I have suffered, and continue to suffer considerable distress, embarrassment and odium.”
According to McCoy he has suffered irreparable and irreversible harm to his character and has been brought into disrepute as a result of the actions of the named defendants.
He petitioned the court saying that unless the defendants were restrained he is fearful that there is a distinct possibility that action will be taken to further accrue damage.
The actions by McCoy stems from media coverage of a conversation between two persons identified as Kwame and Julius.
This newspaper has since found Julius’s mother and recorded a conversation between Julius and his mother as they spoke on the phone.
The phone was on speaker mode and the boy clearly admitted he was the person on the line with Kwame McCoy.
The mother of the 15-year-old schoolboy from whom Kwame McCoy appears to be soliciting sex during a recorded telephone conversation, has since voiced the fact that she is furious that the President has sexual predators working at Office of the President.
This newspaper visited the home of the young man’s mother on Sunday last. She telephoned her son who identified himself as Julius.
According to the woman, her only son confirmed that he was the person on the recording. Reporters listened in on a conversation between the 15-year-old (born August, 18, 1994) and his mother. They heard him admit that it was indeed his voice on the recording.
The youth told his mother that McCoy did tell him that having sex with a man was no different to having sex with a woman.
According to telephone records, the phone call was made on September 9, last, from 226-1832 to 223-7502, a direct line to Kwame McCoy at Office of the President.
The call started at 16:54:03 hrs and lasted for a 20 billable minutes.
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