Tuesday February 9th, 2010
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Cops plead not guilty to beating colleague
Published: 5 Sep 2009
Left:Constable Kynan Leela. Middle:CPL Edward Quashie. Right:Constable McCleod
Five police officers assigned to the Northern Division pleaded not guilty yesterday when they appeared in court charged with offences arising out of an incident in which three men were armed with guns at Sucrier Boulevard in Maloney on August 10.
Four of the officers were charged with beating one of their colleagues, PC Kevon Mc Donald while the fifth, a corporal, was charged with misbehaviour in public office. Constables Aaron McCleod, Sherwin Nicholson, Kynan Leela and Nyvil Francis are accused of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and using obscene language against Mc Donald.
Corporal Edward Quashie was charged with misbehaviour in public office by making a false entry in the police station diary. Quashie was granted $10,000 bail while the other accused lawmen were each placed on their own bail in the sum of $2,000. They appeared before Magistrate Brambhanan Dubay in the Arima court.
Hold on, hold on. Mash
Hold on, hold on. Mash brakes and back up a little.
Ent this incident was caught on video? Pleading not guilty... does this mean the video done gone missing as I predicted? Or just tampered with? Or they more duncey than normal to plead not guilty in the face of the evidence?
I note with interest the names of the defending lawyers... and considering the pro-PNM sentiments of one of them, I can't help but ask where lies the politricks in this situation.
Jumbie's Watch
Wait a minute, how does this
Wait a minute, how does this have a political spin. You are grasping at straws.
Also this is not the incident that was caught on camera.
If that is how they move
If that is how they move with their colleague, you can just imagine what they do to the general public.
Ryan4Party@live.com
Yuh could say that again...
Yuh could say that again... it was reported at the time the victim was being beaten, they actually took the man's police ID from him, and proceeded with the licks.
So they knew full well it was a fellow officer they were assaulting. oh, and don't forget, the head of their section as well as the head of the police station (the victim's 'boss') both failed to take a report.
Jumbie's Watch
It's a long time now you
It's a long time now you have seasoned criminals, or people with criminal intent parading in police uniforms in Trinidad, only God alone knows how the Service itself doesn't know this, or do they actually know and just ignore or condone it, and what's really the criteria for becoming a police officer in T & T?!
Something is happening in
Something is happening in the police force even if it is only to a few of them,charges are being laid against them.
Althought the disgusting situation coming out of St Joseph police station has as yet only resulted in suspension and relocation, I for one hope that we have a better result sooner rather than later. For all the good policemen/women we have who are striving on a daily basis to keep the place safe we have this percentage of police who tarnish and cloud any good that is being done.
Trinbago has now become a place where negativity is the order of the day, disgraceful behaviour by the police only feed the hunger for the negative.
Weed them out make an example of them with real "JAIL" time, for as long as the police service is plagued with this type of persons there will be problems with solving crime.
Talk about the enemy within? there they go thieves caught on camera in South, beating their colleagues in Arima, guns and drugs (not flowers)in the attic in St Joseph. Those are just a few.
The accused policemen have pleaded not guilty as they will not tell on each other, and it would be interesting to hear their story. Shame on you. Shame on you all.