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FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 31, 2014
by KENVILLE HORNE A FORMER RELIEF SECURITY OFFICER at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) has lost his job, and he is convinced that it was as a result of being wrongfully accused by the police. Kirthland Johnson of Kirthland Johnson connects his losing his job to a wrongful accusation by the police.
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Victoria Village, Stubbs, told THE VINCENTIAN that he was frightened and shocked, when police turned up at his work place, around 6 pm on Thursday, October 16th , and arrested him for a crime he claims to know nothing about. He said he was told then that he was suspected of robbing a man at gun point on Tuesday 14th.
The distraught young man related that he was taken to the CID at the police headquarters in Kingstown, where he was asked a few questions concerning his identity, before being threatened and made to bathe in unsanitary conditions. He was then taken to Stubbs where his house was searched, but nothing illegal was discovered. Johnson was also questioned by police at the Stubbs police station before being released without charge, the following night.
at the Stubbs Police Station, Johnson said that he was told by a Corporal that he was accused of robbing someone at gun point in Carapan. He said he was not told at what time on Tuesday the act was committed, and neither was he told who made the initial report. Johnson contended that he would have been at work on the day in question, as his shift starts from 4pm and ends at 12am on Tuesdays.
Conflicting accusations
In his own assessment of the ordeal, Johnson purports that the treatment handed out to him may have had something to do with a previous confrontation of sorts, he had had with a police officer. He was at the time manning a gate at the MCMH when he exchanged ‘harsh’ words with a police officer, who had arrived in a police transport. The officer in question
According to Johnson, while at the holding area at CID, his cousin, a lawyer, arrived to intervene on his behalf. His cousin was told by an officer that Johnson and some other guys had broken into an officer’s house and tried to rob him. But
evening. They were, however, unable to provide further details surrounding the incident, as they were continuing their
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Ollivierre, a well-known former football (goalkeeper), of Paget Farm. The source indicated that Ollivierre died as a investigations when result of a wound or THE VINCENTIAN wounds he sustained spoke with them. during the altercation However, a source with his son, Diandra told THE VINCENTIAN Williams. that dead is Colville Williams, who is also
BEQUIA MAN KILLED POLICE HAVE CONFIRMED that there was an altercation involving a father and son which occurred on the Grenadine Island of Bequia Thursday
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SDA Pastor Brent St. Jean described Kirthland as a young man of impeccable character. threatened to have him lose his job. He said he lost his job after his Supervisor called CID, the Calliaqua Police station and the Stubbs Police station and couldn’t get him. “Because when I was at CID they took my phone from me, and I couldn’t get any calls until the Friday morning,” Johnson explained.
a footballer and plays currently with the Avenues Football Club in the Premier Division of the National Football League, was said to have also sustained some injuries about his body during the incident. This is the second,
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fatal incident involving a father and son for the year. On May 1, there was an incident involving 24year-old Calvin Johnson who killed his 56-yearold father, Calvin Jacobs, both of Biabou, and then placed him in a shallow grave. (DD)