Shawn Hinds now in police custody … ‘We want to verify his identity’ Police
Shawn Hinds shows off his unmarked torso
Shawn Hinds shows off his unmarked torso

SHAWN HINDS, the man wanted by police for questioning in relation to a ‘ serious offence’, turned himself into the police at the Criminal Investigations Department, Eve Leary at around 12:45 hrs yesterday. Attorney at law Nigel Hughes accompanied him.Hinds said that he decided to turn himself in to the police, fearing that the police would have issued a wanted bulletin for him for something he did not do. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told this publication that Hinds is not wanted for the murder of political activist Courtney Crum E wing. But, it seems now that the self-confessed Death Squad member could be grilled on his recent

revelations with HGP Nightly News anchorman, Travis Chase.

Hinds though told Chase that he is not prepared to do that. ‘ I cannot answer to whatever was done back then, when policemen who worked with me still in the force…dat’s stupidness budday’.

Shawn Hinds, right, accompanied by Nigel Hughes, enters the CID compound, Eve Leary
Shawn Hinds, right, accompanied by Nigel Hughes, enters the CID compound, Eve Leary

However police seem particularly interested in the 2006 assassination of journalist Ronald Waddell and his (Hinds) allegations that the police sold guns to the Phantom and Death squads.

However it is no secret now that Hinds is being grilled on the recent allegation made by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo. The Prime Minister said on Saturday that the Death Squad member was seen outside his private residence conducting surveillance. The Prime Minister believes that it was probably for a possible hit.

“We have information that some days ago Shawn Hinds had been parked in a car in the vicinity of my residence and neighbours were alerted, the police were summoned and the vehicle drove away very fast,” the PM said.

Meanwhile, Hinds said in a very recent interview with Nightly News that at no time was he near the Prime Minister’s house and that he sees the allegation by the Prime Minister as a ‘Red herring’. ‘I know Mr. Moses from way back in the PPP and I have never spoken to him much less to do what he said was done…that’s not me, I would never do that’.

Chase asked Hinds if he knows of anyone who would want to harm the Prime Minister. ‘I don’t know of any such thing, and even if there is, I won’t be part of it, never would I do that to my Prime Minister or hear of anything of that sort and allow it to go through’ said Hinds.

In the meantime, the Death Squad member said that he knows the police may want to indulge in torture of a detainee. During the interview with HGP Nightly News, Hinds took off his shirt and displayed his body, showing that there were no marks of violence about his body, and should the police try to torture him, ‘it won’t be a walk in the park’.

Meanwhile, late last evening, this publication was told that the police kept Hinds in custody because they want to ‘verify his identity’ and other matters that investigators did not disclose to his attorney or members of the press. While the police seemingly want to get their hands on the interviews conducted by Nightly News Travis Chase, they have asked Chase to report to the Criminal Investigations Department for ‘talks’. When contacted for a comment, Chase said that he is not prepared to go into the police for talks about releasing the tapes as it is the sole property of HGP TV channel 16 cable 67.

 

 

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