Another spineless act of cowardice from Mr. Freddie Kissoon

Sep 06, 2016 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I, Mikel Puran, 17 years of age, am the son of the late Attorney-at-Law Vic Puran. My attention was first drawn to an article written by Mr. Freddie Kissoon in the Kaieteur Newspaper under the headline “Now Burnham’s daughter Roxanne joins the chorus.”
Perusing Mr. Kissoon’s article, I was shocked that he once again chose to attack my father publicly after his death, knowing full well that my father cannot defend himself. I note that attacking dead people is a favorite pastime of Mr. Kissoon. It is a spineless act of cowardice. Mr. Kissoon would have dared not say those things about my father if he was alive.
In the article, Mr. Kissoon states “I met Puran in Tiger Bay while he was tending to the Foreman Shoe Factory – a building that I suspect he purchased with questionable finances.”
How can a supposedly educated man make such reckless and unfounded statements? One can only imagine how many of these statements damaging to people’s character are made every day by Mr. Kissoon. He concocts his lies every day to get a story for an article for which he is paid.
To intentionally destroy the reputation of others for one’s own survival is as immoral as anything else.
Kissoon loves to moonlight as a morality czar. The truth is my father never purchased Foreman’s property. The property was purchased by my father’s brother-in-law Lakhram Brijmohan. He is a wealthy engineer – who lives in the United States of America. The financing was certainly “not questionable.”
I cannot imagine that this man can sit in his house and fabricate these wicked lies about people, even the dead. I call upon the owner of this newspaper to get rid of this man.
Mr. Kissoon continues his gutter journalism by writing, “I knew Puran had fallen in bad company and I believe those people eventually killed him.” I am calling on Mr. Kissoon to name the “bad company” to whom he is referring. If he fails to do so, I am calling on the Commissioner of Police and the Crime Chief to invite Mr. Kissoon to provide the names of these people, because after all, Mr. Kissoon claims that they murdered my father.
I want the investigation into my father’s death to be reopened and for Mr. Kissoon to submit to the police the names of these suspects. I am a law student and I know that if he has such information and he fails to disclose it to the police he can be charged for serious criminal offences. I am calling upon the Police Commissioner to charge Mr. Kissoon if he fails to divulge the information he has about who killed my father.
Mr Kissoon then writes about the Treason case which my father prosecuted. My father was a professional, unlike Mr. Kissoon. He knew his role as a prosecutor was to present the evidence, and it is for the court to decide. Unlike Mr. Kissoon, my father never pretended to be God and concern himself with how many children and their ages, that people have who are charged with criminal offences. As a prosecutor, my father would have been wrong to allow those factors to interfere with his ability to present the available evidence. That is why he told the unlearned Kissoon “… you should see the evidence.” But of course the egomaniac that Kissoon is would never understand these professional rules.
Mr. Kissoon has convinced himself that he is qualified to morally judge the world. It is a level of insanity from which the public should be protected. Imagine Mr. Kissoon has the audacity to say “(the evidence)… had more holes than a discarded basket?” What qualifications and training does he have to assess the quality of legal evidence?
Since Mr. Kissoon has chosen to attack my dead father and my father is not around to respond, I want to share with the public a few things which my father told me about Mr. Kissoon:
1. That he is a failure in life who is bitter and jealous with all those who have surpassed him and have become more successful in life.
2. That he is inherently a racist who attacks Indian people so as to find acceptability among black people.
3. That he is lazy and never worked more than three hours in his life lecturing at UG, but spends most of his days running and jogging and listening to strange music while other people work and when those people surpass him in life he is vengeful.
4. He stole books from the National Library, kept them for himself and denied other poor children the use of those books.
I hope Mr. Kissoon respects my right to say what I have said.
Mikel Puran

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