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State’s ability to prosecute has been seriously compromised-Anil Nandalall

Nov 07, 2009 News

The methods being employed by the security forces could seriously undermine the judicial process and prove counter productive to what is desired.
This view was expressed by attorney at law, Anil Nandlall, during a press conference hosted by the Guyana Bar Association last Thursday.
Nandlall was referring to the torture of a teenaged boy who remains a suspect in the killing of a former top Region Three official.
The teenager was doused with a flammable liquid and set alight, leading to burns to his lower torso, thighs and genitals.
But while Police Commissioner Henry Greene indicated that investigators had obtained a confession from the teenager, he said that the Director of Public Prosecutions is still to decide on whether or not to charge him, bearing in mind his alleged torture.
Nandlall, a Member of Parliament for the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic, said that one must not forget that a life was lost and this is what led to the investigations in the first place.
However, he pointed out that it may be a travesty of justice if the perpetrators were to walk free as a result of the method of interrogation by the police.
“The effect of what has transpired in terms of the method allegedly used by the investigators in the conduct of their investigations is absolutely counter productive because what it would have done, it would compromise in a significant way the outcome of this matter if persons are eventually charged in terms of the admissibility of any type of evidence that would have been received during this process of interrogation,” Nandlall said.
He added that at the end of the day there will be a miscarriage of justice when a citizen would have died and those who may have been held responsible for the death of that citizen would be able to walk free.
“The state’s ability to prosecute for the interests of the victims of crime would have been seriously compromised by the very state agency which is the Guyana Police Force.”
“Every time the law enforcement agencies engage in these types of conduct–denying people the right to see their lawyer–this is always a possibility that it would have a counter productive impact on the judicial proceedings,” the attorney at law added.

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