Greene to know fate this week

Jan 24, 2012 News

Embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene could learn later this week whether or not he will have

HENRY GREENE

to face the court to answer rape related charges.
Greene’s fate presently lies with the Director of Public Prosecutions who is combing through statements and reports presented to her by a team of local and foreign investigators.
The investigations stem from allegations made by a 34-year-old woman who claimed that the Commissioner raped her in a city hotel back in November last year.
Greene has denied the rape allegations, telling investigators that the sexual encounter with the woman was by mutual consent.
But according to one investigator who asked not to be named, the question of consent is not one for the DPP to decide on.
“That is for the court. The DPP has to decide whether there is enough evidence to support the allegations of rape,” the investigator said.
Weighing heavily on the matter will be the woman’s initial statement, which she had given to local investigators at the Brickdam Police Station.
She had told detectives that after she had sought the assistance of the Top Cop to recover her cellular phone which was seized by the police, Greene subsequently invited her to his office to collect it.
According to the investigator, the woman has indicated that she was invited by the Commissioner, “she did not go there off of her own.”
The DPP for her part is giving out precious little on the matter.
“I still have some work to do on the matter. It’s a very thick file and I will have to go through everything.”
Another issue that the investigators had looked closely at were the threats the woman alleged Greene had made to her.
The woman had claimed that shortly after arriving at the hotel, the Commissioner pulled out a gun and was waving it menacingly, which caused her to be afraid and she reluctantly exited the vehicle after he made a strange demand.
“He said, ‘Oh you don’t want to come out of the vehicle? Furthermore give me back my money; you find it back, I want it right now.’ I know I already spent the money, I don’t have it. I start crying,” the woman said, adding that she eventually exited the vehicle and went into a room which was opened by the Commissioner of Police himself.
She was ordered to take off her clothes by the cop who was still holding his gun in his hand, even as he hurriedly took off his.

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The woman said that she tried to run but the police officer grabbed her and slapped her rendering her unconscious for a brief period.
After leaving the hotel around midnight, the woman said, Greene began threatening her.
“He start threatening me. He said ‘listen if you try go to any doctor, I will know. I got strings all over Guyana.”
The woman said that she was extremely afraid, especially since she considered the threat seriously.
Every day after that, the senior cop kept calling her and reminding her about his threat, which she said caused her to be reluctant to reveal what had happened, to anyone.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud had told this newspaper last week that they are in the process of obtaining telephone records from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company.