HE calls himself a lawyer of integrity; someone who stands up for the rights of “the people”; a creditable individual who cannot stand to see injustice meted out to “innocent persons”; and the quintessential lawyer of 20th Century Guyana.I make mention of Nigel Hughes, the “Man of the Hour”. Or is he? That is the question for which I would secure an answer today.
I would deal with the Mae’s issue in a separate article, but will herein just look at three of the most glaring acts of this attorney who professes himself ‘incorruptible’. Yeah, right!
When you look closer at the man, you get a totally different picture than the one he is painting; instead, I immediately find a culprit who is always at the centre of every corrupt practice you can think of.
Nigel Hughes is known to have removed and tampered with crucial evidence in a murder case for which no disciplinary action was meted out to him. He is also accused of manipulating a jury foreman who was his client for a number of years, who later influenced a jury team into returning a ‘not guilty’ verdict in a high-profile murder case.
In the latter case, scores of grieving family members in the Lusignan massacre were bereft of justice. They had to suffer the injustice of seeing their loved ones mowed down by a murderous pact, then now a further injustice in the murderers being freed because of Hughes.
How can a lawyer, sworn to uphold the laws of the land, knowingly do these things without any remorse, as to intentionally create a situation where murderous criminals can walk free when he knows that they should have been severely punished? How can this man live with himself?
Talk about living with a seared conscience! Nigel Hughes is doing just that. We are hardly even talking about self worth here; because this man’s actions display none; and his conscience seems seared as with a hot iron.
Principles of honesty and truthfulness are apparently alien virtues when the name Nigel Hughes comes up for discussion. His nature and DNA are seemingly made up of corruption. That is why he has reached into another dimension of corrupt practices in the Harding case, where he claims that the felon was baton-raped by a police officer.
The question is: how can this lawyer use a situation of a man having a pre-existing condition and turn it into a situation of abuse? How can he try to make a case of something that just did not happen? Overwhelmingly, the odds are against them, because all the reports, medical and otherwise, point to a criminal who is trying desperately to avoid prosecution, with his lawyer doing the unlikeliest thing in exploiting his pre-existing illness, and transforming it into a case of abuse.
But Nigel Hughes is pushing ahead in an unrestrained fervour, as he does whenever he sees an opening to get ‘easy money’; he feasts on these opportunities like carrion. This is the attorney that I see in most, if not all, of these cases to date.
Nigel Hughes has just exposed who he really is, and he should be prosecuted for his unlawful actions. But he would not do the decent thing and resign, because he still has to extricate himself from the enormous debt that has enveloped him.
Trying as hard as he is, Hughes is doing the immoral thing in trying to make money out of something that certainly is not there. This man has to be stopped legally; that is, he should be disbarred. The corrupt Bar Association, of which he is a part, will not do it, so the attorney-general should do it.
Take the many cases of his illegal practice to court, and have him disbarred immediately! We cannot allow this nonsense to continue any longer.
Written By Neil Adams