FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
02, 2022
VOLUME 116, No.35
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CoP TAKES STAND: DENIES INFLICTING ABUSE BY: HAYDN HUGGINS COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE (CoP) COLIN JOHN has denied allegations of abuse and savagery against former police officer Zackrie Latham who is charged with burglary, and corruption, in connection with the disappearance of guns and ammunition from the Georgetown Police Station earlier last year. John made the denial while responding to questions from Latham’s lawyer Grant Connell, when the trial resumed before Magistrate Zoila EllisBrowne at the Calliaqua Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. At the voir dire (trial within a trial) stage of the trial, Latham had given evidence in which he Grant Connell, attorney for the defendant, drilled accused various police officers, including the the Commissioner of Police about his alleged part Commissioner, of abusing him. in acts of abuse inflicted on Zackrie Latham. At that stage the only medical report available was the one which deemed him fit to return to police custody for incarceration, after being examined by Dr. Felicia Foye at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH). In light of what came out at the voir dire, and the delay in getting the other medical report which dealt with Dr. Foye’s findings, Connell made an application to the Court for the Commissioner, Dr. Foye, Assistant Superintendent Adrian Francois, and a Station orderly at the Georgetown Police Station to be summoned as witnesses, stating that their evidence was essential to the just decision of the case. The Court granted the application.
CoP on the stand The Commissioner, in his evidence, admitted that he was playing dominoes at the office of the Major Crime Unit (MUC) on June 19 last year, when Head of that Unit- ASP Richards, who led the investigations into the matter, brought Latham, handcuffed, to the MCU office. Commissioner John denied having any interaction with Latham. Continue on page 3
Commissioner of Police Colin John stoically denied any part in alleged physical abuse of the defendant.