Geisha Kow­lessar

A new twist has de­vel­oped in­to the three Moru­ga killings as at­tor­ney for the vic­tims, Kei­th Scot­land, is de­mand­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Dwayne Gibbs bring in of­fi­cers from the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (FBI) or Scot­land Yard to over­see the probe. Keron Ec­cles, Abi­gail John­son and Alana Dun­can were shot dead by po­lice on Ju­ly 22. The three friends were trav­el­ling in a car dri­ven by Dun­can when it was re­port­ed po­lice of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do Rob­bery Squad in­ter­cept­ed it. Po­lice have stuck to the sto­ry that the oc­cu­pants opened fire on them, forc­ing the of­fi­cers to re­turn fire. Scot­land sent a two-page let­ter to Gibbs yes­ter­day af­ter­noon de­tail­ing his clients' con­cerns. A copy of the let­ter al­so was sent to the T&T Guardian.

Scot­land said he was act­ing on be­half of Ec­cles' wife, Jun­nette Bas­combe, of Ramd­hanie Road, In­di­an Walk, Moru­ga, and John­son's grand­moth­er, May John­son, of Bur­ton Trace, St Mary's, Moru­ga. "They must bring in the FBI, Scot­land Yard or who­ev­er else they may choose from the out­side. "My clients do not have any trust in the lo­cal po­lice," Scot­land said. In his let­ter, he not­ed there had been ex­ten­sive press cov­er­age of the is­sue, in­clud­ing re­ports of state­ments made by Gibbs who as­sured that the mat­ter would be in­ves­ti­gat­ed by the po­lice. Ac­cord­ing to Scot­land there was al­so a very like­ly pos­si­bil­i­ty that mur­der charges would be laid. "You will ap­pre­ci­ate that it is en­tire­ly pos­si­ble that the out­come of any in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the shoot­ing death of the de­ceased may re­sult in crim­i­nal charges for mur­der be­ing brought against the po­lice of­fi­cers in­volved," Scot­land wrote.

In­sist­ing his clients were "very dis­trust­ful" of any in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­duct­ed by the po­lice, Scot­land said there al­so may be ef­forts to sweep the probe un­der the car­pet. "It is for this rea­son my clients are ex­treme­ly dis­trust­ful of any in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tions, which have re­port­ed­ly been com­menced by the po­lice. "My client fears that de­spite your best in­ten­tions, there may be at­tempts to 'cov­er up' or im­pede the prop­er in­ves­ti­ga­tion of this mat­ter by the po­lice as it re­lates to their col­leagues," Scot­land told Gibbs. As a re­sult of "such cir­cum­stances" Scot­land called on the top cop to take im­me­di­ate steps to en­sure the in­de­pen­dent in­tegri­ty and ef­fec­tive­ness of po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions. He added: "This must be done by the im­me­di­ate ap­point­ment of spe­cial in­ves­ti­ga­tors from out­side of the Po­lice Ser­vice to over­see such in­ves­ti­ga­tions. "My client and in­deed the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty ex­pect no less."