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Teen shot in mouth…Kennard undertakes to complete review of file by next Friday
– Colwyn Harding matter to finish by Tuesday
Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard has undertaken to complete his examination of the file on the shooting in the mouth of a 15 year old boy by a policeman, by next Friday.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday, Kennard confirmed that he received the file containing a report on the investigations conducted by the police Office of Professional Responsibility.
Cecil Kennard
“I had a glance at it,” Kennard told Kaieteur News.
He stated that the file contains 34 statements and a number of exhibits and he will have to go through each and every piece before making his pronouncement.
Kennard will examine the file and make recommendations before it reaches the Director of Public Prosecution for her advice on whether to charge a Cadet Officer who placed a gun into the mouth of 15 year old Alex Griffith and pulled the trigger in Russian roulette style.
He had assured that there will be no cover-up in the matter.
“There will be no cover up…they can’t cover this up. I will look at the evidence and if the policeman is to be charged he will be charged. How can they cover up this?” Justice Kennard, a former Chancellor of the Judiciary, said.
The teenager’s mother Marcel Griffith had made it clear that she will not sit idly by and allow her son’s case to be stretched out like the one involving Colwyn Harding.
The woman had told members of the media that she is not satisfied with the pace of the investigations nor is she pleased with the way she and her son are being handled by the police administration.
“I’m not getting anywhere. I’m just hearing and hearing and nothing is happening. I have a son who is sick, I don’t know whatever will happen to him,” Marcel Griffith said.
Yesterday, Justice Kennard told Kaieteur News that he is presently working on another matter which was brought to him before the Griffith case and which is equally as important.
“Because I’m looking at the Colwyn Harding matter which I hope to complete by (next) Tuesday the latest, I will only be able to finish this Griffith case by Friday next,” Kennard said.
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