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Six months later…File implicating cops in gang rape cover up still with DPP

Mar 09, 2020 News

Concern is being raised regarding the state of an ongoing investigation into the alleged cover-up of a series of gang-rape incidents, reportedly committed by a policeman’s relative and others.
This is because some nine months since the investigation began, there is no indication that any of the alleged culprits will be charged.
The file has been with the office of the Director of Public Prosecution for some six months. What is said to be a detained file reportedly implicates a retired policewoman, one of her female colleagues, and a policeman.
The report is said to include statements from a handwriting expert, who concluded that the retired female lance corporal forged the signatures of three of the victims.
The same rank is also accused of altering the young women’s statements to suggest that they had not identified their attackers. The victims had positively identified their attackers.
Two of the policewomen were attached to the Forces’ Sexual Offences Units.
Kaieteur News understands that some of the police ranks who were involved in aspects of the investigation claimed that their statements were switched.
The police expert reportedly verified that the handwriting in the altered statements matched samples of the female lance corporal’s handwriting.
A policeman who is related to one of the suspects is also accused of paying one of the victims $200,000 to settle the matter.
The female lance corporal from the Sex Crimes Unit is said to have acted as the go-between in handing over the ‘hush money’.
It is also alleged that one of the implicated policemen made a false statement in which he gave one of the suspects an alibi.
However, that statement contradicted another that the same rank entered into the station diary.
Commissioner of Police, Leslie James, had said last July that the media will be informed of the findings of this and other investigations.
All of the implicated ranks have been transferred.
The victims, all in their teens, claim that the policeman’s son and two others, gang-raped and robbed them earlier last year, after they were duped into going on dates with one gang member who drives a car.
The teens said that although the matter was investigated and the suspects apprehended, only one of the alleged rapists was charged.
They have suggested that policewomen who help in sex crime investigations, and who took their statements, were involved in the cover-up.
Kaieteur News was told that persons close to the alleged rapists gave one victim’s family some $200,000 to avoid prosecution.
It is reported that the alleged serial rapists, including the policeman’s relatives, moved around on a motorcycle and a car.
They allegedly contacted their victims via social media.
The gang would reportedly then arrange to meet the unsuspecting young women. If a young woman responded, one of the gang members would take her for a ‘date’ in a car.
Unknown to the teen, two accomplices of their ‘date’ would be hiding in the car trunk.
The ‘date’ would take the teen to a secluded area, where his accomplices would emerge from the car trunk.
The men would then take turns raping the teen, before relieving her of her cellphone and other valuables.
All the attacks are said to have occurred at secluded areas on East Bank Demerara.
From reports reaching Kaieteur News, the gang slipped up when they contacted another teen, who is a friend of one of the victims.
The young woman allegedly notified the police, who allegedly instructed the intended victim to meet her ‘date’ at a particular location while the ranks lay in wait.
The ‘date’ and his accomplices were arrested when they all turned up at the location.
It is alleged that the investigation took a disturbing turn when the police ranks realised that one of the suspects was the son of a police rank.
While the victims allegedly identified all of the suspects, and also provided statements, only one of the men was charged.
Kaieteur News was unable to ascertain whether he is still on remand.

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