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Retired Cop Mark Flowers Still Fighting To Clear His Name
posted (February 6, 2020)
In July of 2016, Superintendent of Police, Mark Flowers, was charged for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14 year old girl - who had also been impregnated.

He emphatically denied the allegation in a round of media interviews, but Flowers was stripped of his command of the GSU, and remanded to prison.

Since that time, he was placed on interdiction, he had a stroke, he retired, and most importantly, a paternity test on the teenager's newborn child established that he was not the father. But the charges against him have not gone anywhere.

And so, today he was back in the Belmopan Courtroom for another adjournment date. Justice Cumberbatch told him and his attorney Dickie Bradley that the trial is now set for June 22nd.

We spoke to Flowers outside the courthouse and got the measure of a man on the rebound:

At the time of his arrest in 2016, Flowers claimed that Minister Saldivar had conspire Dwight the family of the pregnant teen to frame him, a claim with Saldivar has firmly denied saying, quote, "I certainly don't even know the victims nor the parent or mother. I've never met them, don't even know their names and so any assertions that I may have been involved with the family is a complete fabrication." End quote.

We'll tel you what comes out of the trial in June.

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