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Kwame McCoy’s witnesses deny his suggestions
Information and Press Liaison to the President, Kwame McCoy, presented two senior police officers yesterday as witnesses on his behalf in the alleged assault matter brought against him by complaint Clifton Stewart.
Delmark Jack, Sergeant of Police attached to the Brickdam Police Station Registry Office and Senior Superintendent of Police A and F
Kwame McCoy
Division Commander Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Clifton Higgins, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
McCoy’s attorney, Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos was absent, so subordinate lawyer Kayleen Stephen took his place.
The lawyer first called Jack to the stand to lead him in his evidence-in- chief. The police would have been the one to have some affiliation with the firearm licence that McCoy had spoken about on the last occasion.
McCoy had alleged that the assault charge with the use of a firearm was absurd since he had lodged his gun with the police at Brickdam Police Station prior to the alleged incident. He brought the police to verify this.
That was not established, though, since the rank said he was not the one who issued the licence. The police said he only saw the licence after its approval. The police however said that on November 12, 2011, one day before the incident, McCoy went to the office at Brickdam for approval of his licence. He could not say when McCoy left the gun at the station or the date that it was uplifted.
Next to take the stand was the TSU senior rank, Higgins. To all the questions, the police said he could not recall. That may have been the result of the senior police not having contact with McCoy on the day in question, something he revealed in court.
And although the junior lawyer tried, she clearly had a hard time keeping her line of questioning within the realms of evidence-in-chief and not cross examination.
McCoy, on the last occasion, was told to lead his defence and he had alleged that the senior TSU rank had accompanied him along his way during the posting of his party’s presidential candidate’s photo. The police however stated that at no time that day did he have reason to speak or contact McCoy. He further said he could not recall accompanying him on his duties.
The police officer said that he is a senior rank and that such was not part of his duties.
It was however advised that McCoy, in his defence, get the relevant persons to prove his story since the Sergeant of Police did not issue the firearm licence and the TSU rank did not accompany him on the day in question.
The case was then adjourned. McCoy is expected to bring more witnesses on the next occasion.
McCoy is facing the assault and threatening behaviour charge made against him by Clifton Stewart, a man whom McCoy reportedly assaulted during the 2011 political campaign. Stewart said he had intervened and protested McCoy reportedly pasting his party leader’s picture over the party member’s photo whom Stewart supported.
McCoy reportedly became annoyed and smacked the victim upside the head with a gun, causing him to sustain injuries.
McCoy will face another assault matter on completion of the Stewart matter, this time, against Natalie Ross, a woman he reportedly hit with his sports utility vehicle under similar circumstances. She had to overnight at the City’s public hospital.
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