[www.inewsguyana.com] – Prominent Attorney – at – Law, Nigel Hughes says the then Crime Chief, Leon Trim, granted permission for him remove a surveillance tape from a murder scene in 2003.
During his appearance on the radio programme, Hard Talk aired on 90.1 Love FM, Hughes, who is now the Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), emphasized that he did not remove the tape with any ulterior motive in mind.
Businessman, Brian Hamilton, who is a relative of Hughes, was shot and killed during a robbery at his gas station in Buxton, East Coast Demerara in 2003. Then President, Bharrat Jagdeo and by extension the People’s Progressive Party had accused Hughes of tampering with evidence.
Hughes explained that at the time, he was acting in the capacity as a relative of the Hamiltons and at the request of the father of the slain businessman, Oscar Hamilton, he accompanied him to the gas station to retrieve the footage, which he said was returned to the police eventually.
“I went and if you have ever seen, as we say in Guyana, a grown man broken, that’s what Mr. Hamilton was…he said Nigel, they’ve killed my son. I want to go to the gas station. The police have been calling me asking me to come to take out the surveillance tape,” the Attorney explained.
He clarified that Mr Hamilton did not want to go to the scene by himself and when they both arrived, the police had already completed their investigation.
“Mr Hamilton entered the office. The police officer said Mr. Hamilton, this is the tape. Mr Hamilton said I want to see who killed my son, let me keep this tape and I will get it back to you.”
Hughes said the officer at the scene said he could not make that decision and asked him to call the Crime Chief,
“I called Mr Trim and I said look, this is the situation. Everybody, before we got there knew who shot Brian. The person use to walk into the gas station regularly to buy phone cards…everyone knew, so the tape was not important…Mr Trim said sure you can remove the tape, once you copy it and bring it back to us,” Hughes explained.
Hughes said he later visited the Police Headquarters to return the tape but that Trim was not there and he did not want to leave it with the guard. He returned a Monday morning and handed the tape over to the Crime Chief himself.
Mr. Hughes you are making yourself a big fool. I am so sorry for you and the ruling party will make this a real big issue.
My Hughes, if the crime chief gave you permission to remove evidence of a crime scene, then that crime chief is guilty of witness tampering as well. Only the police should have been in possession of any form of evidence especially during the investigative stage. I have never heard or read of anything like this before in any civilised jurisdiction. It seems Mr Hughes is a BIG ONE, he is HUGE, the untouchable. Your excuse is so pathetic!
Mr Hughes who will believe your crap and bull story?
Tell it to the Ootoos and the PalmKeyites.
During his appearance on the radio programme, Hard Talk aired on 90.1 Love FM, Hughes, who is now the Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), emphasized that he did not remove the tape with any ulterior motive in mind.
hughes is right ..no ulterior motive in mind ..the man does not have a mind..linden coi commissioners proved that hughes is not too bright as afc would have guyanese believe but man oh man he is well connected to big insiders of the judiciary …