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‘My son is no criminal’

Apr 02, 2011 News

– Wanted man’s mother breaks her silence

Jean Anne  Fredericks, the mother of  Orlando Thom, is adamant that her son is no criminal, but is the target of wicked people who happen to be his relatives, and who are determined to see him dead at any cost, because of what he can reveal about them.
Fredericks said that she can’t take it any longer, because the very people that are painting her son a criminal are the real criminals. One of them had actually paid a hit man $1million to shoot him, she said. The perturbed woman said that her son is afraid to come out of hiding, because he knows the police will kill him, because of the negative reports that were made about him.
“All the stuff that was reported in today’s paper are all lies. Lando don’t be nowhere prowling about. Is these people just want to paint a bad picture of him so that the police would get rid of him. The hit man didn’t get through to do their dirty work, so they want the police to do it for them.
Scholarship thwarted
Fredericks said that her son, a former national swimming champion, was granted a ten- year visa to pursue a scholarship in Miami, Florida. He never did, because he was enticed by a relative with “big money”.
“This relative showered him with brand-name clothes and boots, and told him, “You just wasting your time; the government can’t do nothing for you.”
“Lando moved out from my house and went to live with this same relative- he was there for a couple years.
“Then things started to get out a hand; he didn’t like what was happening, too much advantage. These people were taking people children and working them like slaves, while they live like kings. Lando couldn’t take that so he started to rebel.”
Brains in the business
Fredericks further confessed that Thom’s cousins wanted to control him, because he had the ‘brains’- and so they didn’t want to lose him.
There was however a falling out over money and Thom moved out shortly after. Things really got out of hand after that, Fredericks confessed, noting that contrary to what was reported by her brother Archilus Fredericks, it is his sons that are on a mission to kill her son, and not the other way around.
The woman said that she is praying daily, with other relatives and friends, for her son, for whom she plans to do everything in her power, to prove his innocence.
“Nobody ain’t see Lando that night when they claim he shoot up their house, and if my son wanted to kill them, he coulda do it long!”
Orlando Fredericks is currently on the run from the law, after he was recently implicated in a “kidnapping” at Nottinghamshire.
That person was however released unharmed hours later. Meanwhile residents have reported that on Thursday night some men with long guns were spotted at the Health Centre at Sibierien. The police were called in but the gunmen eluded them, then later came out from hiding after they had left.
They then proceeded to threaten a resident (name given)that he would be killed. Residents in the Sibierien/Old England community are of the opinion that the police are either in cahoots with the real criminals, and are being bankrolled by them, or they are afraid of them.
“It is time the Police in Linden come under some heavy investigation themselves,” a peeved resident pointed out.

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