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An extensive but pointless exercise designed to frustrate an investigation

Sep 12, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

The RSS report the state has chosen to publish their interpretation of the report without sharing the actual report or all of its recommendations.

If indeed those interpretations are correct, the RSS will find it extremely difficult to justify their conclusion that there was no corruption or cover up without attempting to question Dion Bascom, the source of the information, to find out more.

It also appears that the RSS report repeats the highly questionable conclusions that the Crime Chief drew during the Press Conference designed to challenge the assertions of Bascom. Much has been made of the connection of Bascom to a certain businessman as proof of a hidden agenda to falsely accuse the prime suspect.

By a parity of reasoning, it is equally possible, and more plausible, that the even stronger connection of a senior police official to the defence lawyer of the prime suspect and the connection of the prime suspect to a senior Government official could point to a hidden agenda to cover up the matter.

On the other important issue of whether the GPF conducted an effective investigation, the state has chosen to side-step this by speaking only of “extensive” work having been done.

One method of covering up a matter is to conduct extensive work knowing that there is little to no prospect of obtaining useful evidence. In this very matter, The Crime Chief has asked foreign agencies, among other things, to enhance a blurred image of the number plate of the getaway car.

The suspects in this matter cut out the chassis number, filed off the engine number and then burnt the getaway car.

With this amount of effort and planning, it is highly improbable that the suspects would use a number plate that could connect them to the murder. This is an example of an extensive but pointless exercise designed to frustrate an investigation, especially if it is known from experience that this type of foreign intervention can take many months.

The Press Release mentions only one recommendation: collaboration between our local forensic labs with a regional counterpart. Was there a recommendation to arrest and/or question the suspects in the matter? If not, why not? The parts of the RSS report cherry-picked by the state to be published could not be the most important parts of the report. Without access to the report in its entirety, there remains more questions than answers and more evidence of the continuation of a cover-up.

The Fagundes family

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