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Oct 06, 2009 News
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, yesterday updated media operatives on the investigations into the sexually laced tape conversation that has surfaced between someone believed to be Kwame McCoy, of the Office of the President, and the rights of the Child Commission, and a 15-year-old boy identified as Julius.
According to Dr Luncheon, the Commissioner of Police has “interimly” said that efforts have been made to get in touch with the individuals that have been identified as having connection to the tape.
He added however, “those outreaches have not been conclusive,” and that the police would have to continue their investigations.
On October 1, this newspaper reported that McCoy, who is embroiled in the controversy over the recorded conversation purportedly to involve him soliciting sexual favours from a 15-year-old boy, left the city.
He reportedly first touched down at Lethem at the border with Brazil and was heading to Brazil and is likely to end up in Venezuela.
Kaieteur News has been informed that McCoy, who boarded a Trans Guyana flight which left the Ogle Airport at 10:43 hrs on September 30, arrived at Lethem under an “assumed name” and not his known name. This may have been the reason the police failed to contact him.
President Bharrat Jagdeo had told reporters, that he would look into the McCoy matter and would make a determination on McCoy’s fate once he was fully briefed.
McCoy’s departure from Georgetown came a day after Chief Justice Ian Chang dismissed an injunction McCoy had brought against Kaieteur News, Prime News and Capitol News, to prevent the media houses 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 was also seeking damages in excess of $50M from each of the named defendants for what he calls libel.
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