Chester Williams Says Senior Police Officers Tried to Frame Him for Murder |
Tue, July 1, 2008 |
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Senior Superintendent of Police Chester Williams remains suspended with half
pay and is awaiting a judicial review hearing in the Supreme Court. But now,
Williams has seriously stepped up the pressure on the Police Department, particularly
the senior command who he maintains victimized him as part of a political witch
hunt. 7NEWS has learned that Williams yesterday made
a compliant naming 2 senior police officers, alleging that they fabricated evidence
against him, and tried to frame him for the murder of Jermaine Fuentes.
Viewers may recall that in early March we received reports of remains that
were found buried in a shallow grave off the coastal road. Police believed the
remains could have been those of Jermaine Fuentes who disappeared in 2003- and
the story was that he was killed by a sort of police death squad – which
it later emerged was alleged to have been led by Chester Williams. A story so
odd that it seems incomprehensible, and that’s just what Williams said
at the time when he blew up in an interview angrily alleging that he was being
set up.
Well now that’s the same complaint he’s made – and we understand
that the two officers named are very senior officers in the Eastern Division.
Now Williams is asking the CIB office to investigate them for fabricating evidence
against him and trying to implicate him for murder. Very steep charges, and
today the Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby told 7NEWS that they will look
into it like any other report.
And while the COMPOL doesn’t have much to say, the truth is he can’t
because whichever way it goes, the adverse publicity resulting from this continuing
feud threatens to do irreversible damage to the department’s image, if
it hasn’t done so already. |