Dean Barrow
Shortly after receiving a copy of that damning memo, News Five contacted D.P.P. Cheryl Lynn-Vidal for comment. She was livid about the leak and had absolutely nothing to say about the memo. But she did say that if somebody in the Police Department would see it fit to leak a document which is plainly marked confidential, then it should be something which the Commissioner of Police should take steps to deal with immediately. At the moment, the Commissioner of Police has his hands full, but we managed to get comment from Prime Minister Dean Barrow today. We asked him if he was aware of the communication from the D.P.P. to the head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch.
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
“No I’m not, but I will certainly familiarize myself with it. I can’t believe that that’s accurate. Still I don’t doubt you and so let me check into it and I wish you pursue it with the investigating officer. Ask him who the hell, if somebody did give him that instruction, ask him who the hell did. I would certainly like to know because that is the sort of thing that we don’t countenance at all.”
Mike Rudon
“That is what the D.P.P. is asking sir; she has it right here. That is what the D.P.P. is asking the police to please find out who instructed this gentleman to…”
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
“Well indeed, if indeed such an instruction was given, I too would want to know who gave such an instruction. I am not accepted that it was; I simply don’t know, but if it was, we need to get to the bottom of that.”
News Five has been unable to contact ASP Julio Valdez for verification, but we’ll keep trying.
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