SOURCE: NEWS 784– Lawyer Kay Bacchus Baptiste said a woman whom the police picked up on Thursday evening and accused of inflicting a wound to the Prime Minister’s head was forced to confess to such.
“I tried to reach her and could not contact her for a couple of hours where the police had her, and then eventually was able to speak to her at around 11 pm last night”.
“She said to me that the police told her they have images from the camera of her pelting a stone and hitting the Prime Minister”.
“She said she never pelt a stone; she said she never even had one in her hand, but she confessed. The way they had her there, she admitted, or they got her to sign a statement without a lawyer, that she did it and she wants to apologise to the Prime Minister”.
Bacchus – Baptise said she asked her client repeatedly why she wanted to apologise. However, she could not answer.
“Now I’m learning that she is not all there, so they are playing on the fact that she’s not very focused. They took her down to the hospital in the police van to talk to the Prime Minister on Thursday; of course, she was there a long time, and that did not happen”.
“When I went to see her on Friday morning she tells me they have not charged her yet but they are getting ready to take her to see the Prime Minister”.
Now, could you imagine someone who hit the PM, that the police will take this person to visit him?
“I warn them that I am her lawyer and to do not carry her anywhere without me being present, and she’s not to give any more statement to them because the first statement is not a proper statement, it was one obtained unlawfully, and therefore it is not a good statement”.
“They are beginning to set up a divide and rule and have the country divide. That is what they are trying to do. The police are expecting Gonsalves will forgive the woman, and he looks good”.
“This is an orchestrated thing, and now I believe that the police baton busts his head. Gonsalves is simply trying to slow down the protests and shift the focus as to what is happening”.
On Thursday evening, a release from the Prime Ministers office said;
“Approximately 200 demonstrators, responding to a call to action from the Leader of the Opposition, picketed the Parliament and blocked the entrance to the building, when the crowd prevented the vehicle carrying the Honourable Prime Minister from driving through the gate of the Parliament, he alighted the vehicle and attempted to enter on foot”.
“An Opposition demonstrator then hurled a projectile at the Prime Minister, which struck him in the head, inches above the temple. The Prime Minister, bleeding profusely, was taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital by his security detail”.
On Thursday night, Government Senator Julian Francis said a woman was arrested.
“I want to say a woman was arrested; there may be more. She wanted to apologise to the Prime Minister. I said no, she is not going in front of my political leader to do what; because you got locked up, you want to apologise”. Francis stated.
“Go and apologise to the leader of the Opposition. Let me tell you something, be careful what you do; social media is watching you; sometimes, it’s better than the police”, Francis said.
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Whoever committed this act of violence should be charged, trialed, and put in jail in found guilty. OECS countries believe in the rule-of-law and the common-law.
Its not a good look to lock up your own security personnel because they were clumsy and the baton hit the PM in the head.
The ancestors are NOT happy. They will make moves in the spirit realm accordingly. An attack on the life of “The Comrade” of St. Vincent is an attack on us all. This is no small thing.
All of you Bush Lawyers know it all.I am awaiting an investigation and results. I thought that is how it ought to be done. How dare someone threw an object and hit “A Comrade”. Throw it and hit all others,not “A Comrade”. They are above being hit and above reproach. For they are COMRADES.
The lawyer is just “lawyering” and so needs to find some sort of defence for his client. However, the batons used in the Caribbean are smooth wood and don’t cause cuts, unless being hit repeatedly in the same spot. A cut to the head is usually caused by a blunt object, such as a stone. The lawyer is going to have the time of his life trying to convince a Court that a baton made that cut. Medical experts will quickly destroy that line of argument.
Wash an’ Basin you really do not know what you are talking about. You are wrong on two counts.
A police baton is a blunt object. Blunt object means something hard and smooth. Not sharp. Batons, baseball bat, cricket bat a piece of pipe are all blunt objects.
Can a blunt object cause a cut no. A cut can only be cause by a sharp object. But a blunt object can cause an abrasion which happens when an object causes the skin to be rubbed away. A police baton can cause an abraision. Not on my shoulder or thigh because that is fleshy but on my knees elbows and head where there is only a thin layer of skin over bone, yes.
What part of Antigua you live. No Antigua police ever burst someone head with a baton.
But hey, I do not believe the lawyer either. Just that if you was Prosecutor, and that’s all you got the lawyer will win you.
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