Trotman file for DPP Chambers this week
Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman
Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman

WHILE lawyers for Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Raphael Trotman have blocked Johnnie Welshman from making public statements and comments that implicate the speaker in a sex scandal, the Guyana Police Force nonetheless continues the investigation.

Yesterday, police sources working closely with the case have confirmed that the file is being prepared to be sent to the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution and if all goes well with respect to its preparation, the file should reach the chamber by the end of this week.
Several statements have already been submitted by persons in the matter, including Trotman. Trotman is on record as telling the police that he would cooperate with them on the investigation, while also admitting that once he is charged he may consider stepping down as Speaker of the National Assembly.
He told reporters just under a month ago that his decision was influenced by his research on similar cases in other parts of the world, where sitting speakers of National Assemblies were embattled.
Johnnie Welshman, who is widely perceived by some to be mentally unstable, has been levelling damming allegations against his father, the Speaker of the National Assembly and another person whom he claims sexually assaulted him when he was younger.
Welshman had made several claims and pronouncements prior to the ‘gag’ order by the High Court.These claims and pronouncements had been the subject of reviews by members of the public and political parties.
The young man had also threatened to expose journalists and media houses that he said had been reporting comments and attributing them to him, although he never made those comments. He has threatened to do the exposé with the use of a pen camera and recorder, which he claims is always in his shirt pocket.
However in an unfortunate twist of events two Sundays ago, Welshman was beaten by two men after he had joined a taxi which took him to the Kingston area. Welshman suffered several lacerations to the face and other parts of the body and was forced to jump from the moving vehicle as the men kept beating him. He suffered a broken tooth during the ordeal and the police are still investigating that matter. No one has so far been arrested.

(Leroy Smith)

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