THE Colwyn Harding so-called sodomy case is proceeding just the way I predicted. I clearly stated in a previous article that all the loud speakers in this matter – Nigel Hughes being the chief spokesperson – have realised that they simply do not have a case. They do not have a case because this matter was purely based on an allegation seemingly neatly crafted by Hughes to extort money from poor taxpayers. There must be firm evidence for which this case was screaming its heart out or lack thereof.Like I said earlier, this case is based on pure hearsay coming from a lawyer who should not be practicing in our courts because of his past involvement in illegal transactions of several kinds not least being jury and (alleged) evidence tampering. But he is persisting in trying every nefarious strategy to the very end in a case that lacks credence.
From the outset I stated that mere allegations cannot see the light of day in a court of law and that his claims would have to be substantiated by a medical report. That medical report must come from a creditable medical personnel who would have conducted a comprehensive examination of the patient. After public and private doctors failed to authenticate Hughes’ charges, having knowledge of this he shopped around for a “suitable medical personnel” to corroborate their story and has come up with an “expert”. Is this the Cuban trained “doctor” who graduated himself from paediatrician to ballistics expert to forensic specialist; is this the expert they are talking about? Then we are in for a sick joke that seems to be getting better by the day.

Or is it one of their colleagues from CARICOM, which always supported the PNC? There is no way any justice should look into those allegations for medical reports; and I urge them to treat that report with the contempt it deserves. I make this statement on the guaranteed certainty that credible Jamaican doctors would never corroborate the baton insertion claim – that soap opera report is coming from the discredited “local expert”. Even if I should remotely believe, which I do not – that the Jamaican doctors are inclined to substantiate their story then the local investigators must have a forensic look at those documents. Nigel Hughes is known to go to any lengths to win a case, especially one in which he stands to gain big bucks and discredit the police and Government at the same time; and there is no reason why he is not doing it again. Examine that report carefully. Better yet, Government should get its own expert from a non-affiliated expert.

In any event, the Jamaican doctor in question would have to be grilled in a court of law and from what I am getting from the press, Hughes is basing his hopes on the local “practitioner”. The local practitioner is a pied piper who would make up a report at the drop of a hat. Is this the smoking gun Hughes and company is bringing to the Guyanese public? Is this all they’ve got? Then, they need to think again because we are not going to be coerced into doling out millions on a case that has no validity; we are wiser now.
Like the Linden case when independent expert testimony did not validate their story but supported the Government’s findings, yet the Government doled out millions from the public purse, and one wonders how much their lawyers received; because these incidents are quickly becoming very successful get-rich schemes at the expense of taxpayers. That money from the treasury has been sacrificed at the altar of peace. However, I strongly suggest that this is not going to happen again; we are not going to fall for this nonsense. That bogus testimony coming from a bogus doctor should not get a hearing in our courts.
This matter reminds us also of the rape allegation brought against former Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, when a similar trick was played out, destroying a man’s professional reputation and his career, stressing his mother to her grave, and him into a heart attack that ultimately led to, not only his death, but the deaths of other innocent persons. Talk about blood on their hands. And if I may add, some of the same actors in the Harding case were also on stage in that case also. They did not get their fables right then as it is now.

In closing I must state that this Harding sodomy allegation must be seen in the same light and treated the same way as the lies were in the Henry Greene case.
Written By NEIL ADAMS