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In the case R. v. Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy I1924), Lord Chief Justice Hewart, in quashing the conviction, said: “Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.”

On November 8, 2008, 16-year old Anna Druzhinina died a horrible death at the hands of Omar McCollin and Teereth Persaud, who received 16 and 21 years respectively for their crime.

I have heard this case discussed by several persons, all laymen, and all of them, like me; believe that this child’s killers have gotten away with murder. As I understand it one will walk out of prison in 12 years and the other in 15 years and 9 months. That is a small price to pay for such a gruesome killing.

They were originally charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. While I have the highest regard for both the judge and prosecutor, and personally believe that their integrity is beyond reproach: I am of the view that one or both of them should have recused themselves from taking part in the case. My belief has nothing to do with any wrongdoing or bias on the part of either the judge or the prosecutor, who accepted a plea and did not allow a jury to deliberate on the evidence in a murder trial. From the layman’s perspective, it has everything to do with the appearance that justice was not done in this case. One of the killers, the judge and prosecutor are all Guyanese. For that reason, and only that reason, there is an appearance that justice was not done in this case.

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224 responses to “Murder or Manslaughter? Depends on Who is the Killer”

  1. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    True! David. You can’t make this up (unless you’re living in a fantasy land)

    All of it is interesting but I wonder why some names keep popping up in these recent revelations. Why are’nt some relatively unknown names featuring rather than the ones we know so well. Looks like we’re being treated to view of some of Barbados’ upper crust that is seldom seen.

    This BU FOI may be even more revealing than the real thing.

  2. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David
    I hope you are lawyered up, too many names (and most of them lawyers) being bandied about this blog for someone not to be offended. You may label my earlier statement about “hornet’s nest” as being the understatement of the year.

    @Check it out
    Why are you concerned about names? Let Mr. Jackson tell his story, he will fill in the blanks.

  3. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    Sargeant; Looks like both of us are concerned about the names.

    Carefully read your post following mine and see that you show a deep concern about the names also. And note It seems to be you who is subliminally threatening David and perhaps Mr Jackson with something that you think they have to be “lawered” up for. Indeed, the part of your post addressed to me seems to be totally at odds with your earlier advice in the same post to David.

    Perhaps you should ask david to remove the last part of that post as it makes absolutely no sense in the context of the first part. I wanted Jackson to continue naming names, You wanted him to stop, I presume, or could it be that in your heart of hearts you wanted BU to be shut down? hmmm!

    Definitely not up to your usual standard.

  4. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    Yep… again the horrible thing is the Googling of a name … It is more than likely that the wrong things will pop up and that is where the concern will be. There was a British IMF consultant that contributed to this blog, Living in Barbados, who is now living in Bermuda who had Word Press take action for a similar concern a few years ago.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Sargeant wrote “@David “I hope you are lawyer-ed up.”

    As long as the “names” were involved in the events they will not sue.

    They will not want to see their names in International newspapers.

  6. ac Avatar
    ac

    isgal look a..hole. you seem to have a bug stuck up your behind name ac that is fine with me. for all iknow the episode above i have not commmented on. girl go pull some weeds and stop calling my f..king name.

  7. ac Avatar
    ac

    i have more than one ocassion stated the injustice done and the punishment not befitting of the crime. Now yuh sorry a.ss calling me names . People like you have a tabloid mentality and reacts to articles in such manner but when one tries to see a differing point of view you ass coming screamming obscentities . Bit…h

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @ac

    Please take this offline, it adds no value to what we are trying to do here i.e. work with John.

  9. ac Avatar
    ac

    well i am highly offended and like everyone else have a need to defend myself against unjustifiable allegations.

  10. mash up and buy back Avatar
    mash up and buy back

    Is this judge marie mccormack the wife of the former chief justice David Simmons?

    I don’t understand the part about a child mccormack had that was taken away,is this a child before her marriage to david simmons?

    If she is indeed david simmon’s wife, I understand that she is a nasty piece of work and gave that former principal of Queens College Coleen Wynter hell when Mccormack was on the QC Board.

    Is she the same person who Amused said messed up the registry when she was in charge?hmm

    Dawn shield searles is a poor,poor jamaican woman who came here to Barbados after doing law here and stayed on here trying to build her practice.

    The day will soon come – if we don’t fight it – when bajans will be second class citizens in their own country and all the cum-yuhs will be perlixin and pompasetting all over we.

  11. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    Finally after all that the mother and the Court had put my daughter thro she became very ill,and she was admitted to QEH in a semi concious condition.They did not know at first what was wrong with her.
    I slept at the Hospital.The following night the Doctor came and told me my daughter was a Type 1 diabetic, while my daughter was asleep,I drove home for an hour to wash and shave.
    I was in shock,type 1 diabetes is very dangerous, altho according to instructions I had in Barbados ,would not have you beleive so.
    At the time,and after she left Hospital, I was given some fast and slow insulin that I had to mix myself and a very large needled syringe. About as much instruction as how to use it as you would give someone to prepare a cup of tea.
    When I came back the Doctor came again to me and said “we have made a mistake ” You daughter is not diabetic”
    I sank on my knees and cried,I was just so gratefull,my daughter did not have a terminal illness.I could not stop crying and shaking, I felt as tho I was disintegrating.It was very disconcerting ,I am a strong person and have never been like this in my life.
    I sat in the chair by her bed with my head in my hands, alternating from extreme to extreme.
    Thank God she .just slept.
    When she awoke ,I just needed to cuddle her and try to give both of us strength.I do not know if QEH has altered now but then, there was very little compassion and parents were treated like they were soldiers in the army and a little stupid.I watched a cleaner,clean the ward floor,she dipped a mop in a bucket and went half the length of the ward with the same mop,before it saw the inside of the bucket again.
    The doctors were unapproachable,and when they approached you it was brusque and unfeeling.
    Later down in the day,the Doctor,came again to me.
    I was told.”We have made a mistake” your daughter HAS GOT type 1 Diabetes.” and then just walked away.
    I dont think in my life , ever I had such a feeliing.
    It was like everything in this world had just left me, I was marooned in space,I was on an uncareing planet of Aleins.
    I was distraught, heartbroken, angry, upside down inside out and back to front.I didnt know what to beleive or to do, subjected to this incompetance and trapped my McCorrmack as she had my passport and was controlling me.
    As a father like a nuetered person.These people had me in a Prison, I could do nothing to help my child.I looked around and despared,I felt as tho I was being destroyed peice by peice by these,”Gaurdians of Barbados law and Order”
    I just wanted to pick up my child and run.
    McCorrmack at the time was still pursueing her stated objective of breaking my relationship and putting the child back with her natural mother,the mother came to the Hospital a few times and I mean a few and on what was her last day before she flew out,came ,stopped by her daughters bed ,gave her a kiss on the head and told her”Mummy cant stop with you, as I have to get my hair done to look pretty to go back to England.” “Bye bye darling keep well”
    That was the last we saw of her.
    While my daughter was in Hospital in Diabetic shock and still fluctuating beteen balanced and unbalanced control;its called the Honeymoon period; its as the last of your insulin producing B cels are dieing,and you become a total type 1 diabetic.Reliant on Insulin injections for the rest of your life.
    MCorrmac arranged another hearing ,but for some reason the Judge who took it was called “the honorable Fredric Waterman”( please remember that name as this man carry’s the past with him on his shoulder like a spectre,he appears never to forget anything and takes everything personally)
    At that time Hal Gollop was representing me.
    Hal presented papers to Waterman about my daughter,he did not read them.
    There was a farce of hearing at which Waterman ordered me to take my Daughter out of Hospital and on an International flight to Uk and hand her over to her Mother.McCorrmack had ordered my daughter be given to her mother,I was told.
    I just flat out refused. Waterman was very angry, and talked to me as tho I had personally affronted him.His attitude was like that of a contoller a gestapo,I had to do as he said or be punished.
    Its a demoralising situation,frightening overwhelming ,and I beleive it was designed by McCorrmack to be just that.They were useing my Love for my daughter as a weapon against me, terrorising me with it , threatening me with her safety at every opportunity.
    Care board calling and saying she was going to be put in a childrens home and I never see her again unless I got the Passport from Barbados immigration dept..
    I submitted to McCorrmack, and went to the British High commission with the Officer of the Court and my passport and asked for my daughter to be struck out, ,then was met at the door of the High Commission and my passport taken from me and given back to Mccorrmack.I after went and got the Barbados passport as mcCorrmack ordered me, and picked up the waiting Barbados passport for my daughter.
    Waterman the judge in the case proceeding, told me when I refused to take my daughter on a plane to uk that:.
    IF I DID NOT DO AS HE SAID, he would arrange for my daughter to be taken from Hospital to the airport “WHERE HE WAS SURE HE COULD FIND SOME WELL MEANING INDIVIDUAL TO SIT BY HER SIDE TILL SHE REACHED ENGLAND AND HER MOTHER.”
    This was the point where Hal Gollop jumped up and said “if you do, if ONE HAIR of this childs head is harmed ,we will be coming for YOU SIR”
    I always had a soft spot for Hal after that.I could have jumped up and Kissed him.
    He was a Boney Sir Gallahad.
    SOMEONE was able to STAND up to these Bastards.
    The Honerable Fred Waterman was visably shocked,He told Hal Gollop to sit down,he asked what he meant by that.
    Hal said “YOU SIR have a ? paged document in front of you, a Doctor is saying this child is in diabetic shock and cannot be moved and YOU SIR are intending to take her from Hospital and to the airport give her to a stranger and put her on an international flight to UK”
    “IF you DO, beleive me SIR and one hair of this childs head is harmed,WE WILL COME FOR YOU”
    Waterman looked furious, he picked up what I took to be the ? paged document Hal referred to, flicked at it like he was reading, 3 seconds later put it down and told us “The child stays in Barbados”
    I think that moment became a festering sore ,against ME, in the side of the Honorable Fredric Waterman .He never forgot and certainly I believe ever forgave.
    You will see what I mean if you can read to the end.
    So temporarily my daughter, was saved from these insane representatives of Barbadian Justice.
    I bought a computer and spent every waking minute learning about diabetes and how to look after a newly diagnosed diabetic.My daughter was released from Hospital to me.
    I came to realise how poor was the treatment then and how old were the implements given for parents to use without any real instrction.
    Because fo the Honey moon period, newly diagnosed Diabetics are Volatile,also my total lack of skill giving injections,made life a nightmare.
    I would take her skinny little arm in my big hands and feel so Clumsy and that I was hurting her, I was fearfull to at first pierce her with the very long needles,I just didnt want to be the one adding more pain to her little life.
    I had fast and slow acting insulin in two bottles,I could have killed her if I had messed up.
    All of this I was doing ONLY by trial and error,I was in trauma every time I injected her.
    One day she fell down unconcious,I thought she was dead,I picked her up put her in the back of the car and rushed to QEH,where I was met with Supreme indifference, a guy, a porter or ward orderly took her from me and SAUNTERED along on the way to where she would be treated. He stopped and spoke with a freind about CRICKET.
    I was frantic,they said she is OK just a relapse give her some sugar and she will come back NO PROBLEM.
    Later I found out that each one of the episode leaves a tiny PERMANENT brain damage,I asked other parent and found most of the kids were regularly IN SHOCK.
    It was then I knew I had to get my daugher OUT and someplace she could be treated and treated with concern and care ,not like she was something that was a trouble.
    I asked McCorrmack thro her Chambers for Permission to take my daughter to uk for Specialist treatment.
    As they had been terrorising me to get her there anyway , I thought they would say yes.
    McCorrmack said NO.
    I went to Chambers with my lawyer,and McCorrmack said she would not agree as I could not say HOW LONG I would be away for .So as she didnt know she could not allow it.
    I told her HOW can I tell you how long ,thats why we need my daughter to see the specialist.
    That was not good enough she INSISTED on a TIMESCALE.
    So I just shut my eyes picked a# and said 6 months.
    She allowed it.
    I got a flight the next day to uk.

  12. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    OMG what is running through the veins of these judges? What kind of judiciary do we have? BARBADOS and BARBADIANS PLEASE WAKE UP!

  13. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    I am sooo sick to my stomach. How can these people call themselves human beings? Barbarians!

  14. David Avatar
    David

    @John

    What would be good is if you give your Attorney Hal Gollop permission to post a concise brief on BU which corroborates your report.

  15. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    The child I refer to,that Mccorrmack said was hers and she had left with someone for a very extended period,that then didnt know her or want to know her.
    (Thats what triggered her terrorisation of my daughter and my self ).
    I am told the son she has, is the one that likes to; “dressup”.
    She tried to wipe her concience clean on me by useing my life and destroying it in the process.
    IF her action in leaving her son did, in HER mind make him an oddity.That was HER action not MINE.
    I was just a simple guy living and loving ,no trouble to anyone.
    To cleanse HERSELF, her Soul,her concience,, she took the entire resources of the Island of Barbados, and tried to CRUSH me with them .Shredding my life with her insanity,but she WAS the Law,so I had to eat it up and spit it out.
    But she never felt she had succeeded, my child was NEVER placed back with the Natural mother BECAUSE of McCorrmack,s terror campaigns,
    .People like her NEVER forget,that is why I beleive a lot of the orchestrated manipualtions of evidence to todays courts regarding the men who killed Anna emmenates from someone with a very deepseated inner need to “cleanse ” them selves.
    Wipe their feet on me, Eat their dish of REVENGE very cold and relish every spoonfull.
    You have seen these people in operation,they are above the plebian mass in their minds.They are the elite,and will go down in history as saviours and heroes.
    GOD help you if you get in the way of it.

    Names.
    I am ONLY relating what happened to me and why it led ,I believe, to the events of recent years and ultimately in the Death of Anna.
    I can only say the names of people who were directly involved, either beneficially or destructivly

  16. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    David, I am only too happy to.
    Hal WAS my lawyer at the early part of this nightmare.
    Later Margo Greene,who I will always be grateful to,did the major part,
    I did write to Hal by email and speak on his cel phone about appealing the finding of these Courts concerning the death of Anna.I sent him all the newspaper reports showing how Charles LEACOCK had in the reports been shown to have altered at each hearing evidence he gave as truthfull.
    Hal never replied.
    But yes if he wishes and has information still ,he has my full permission.

  17. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    Also margot Greene,if you wish to contact them.

  18. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    If this is true I can now clearly see that the position that Amused took about the apparent one-sidedness of the AX enquiry and the rush to justice might have had some rational basis.

  19. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    Dumbstruck …

  20. Amy L. Beam Avatar
    Amy L. Beam

    For readers just reading this blog on Anna’s murder for the first time, you’ll want to start with the oldest posts first and read them in order. Especially to read the serial posts by Anna’s father, John Jackson, as he explains background information that culminated in Anna’s death. sign up to get posts sent to your email inbox to follow this unfolding story.

  21. Peltdownman Avatar
    Peltdownman

    Just like BAFBFP. Dumbstruck – a totally amazing story. And I believe it.

  22. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    All of you reading please understand I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS UP.
    I lost TWO daughters over these people.
    I am a little slow today as the reliving of all I had tried to forget is stressful in the extreme,
    TRUTHFULLY
    I do not beleive it will in Barbados make ONE IOTA of difference.

    People are to frightened anymore to say out loud what is in their minds.
    I feel that the Current DPP Charles Leacock is Guyanese thro to the soles of his shoes,he appears insensative, insincere and unable to relate to reality.
    If you had a problem in your family would you expect a stranger who does not understand ONE things about how you function or feel to help you solve it.
    HOW can a woman refusing sex be “provocation” and seemingly in Leacocks mind justification for the Horror that ensued.
    I saw of him in the trial of McCollin reportedly LOAD all the misdeeds on the GUYANESE; PERSAUD.
    I read and was read actual statements these murderers both made to the police,if what was reported is true .LEACOCK just lied and lied,it was not a mistake of judgement by him.
    Its NOT FOR LEACOCK to decide what Justice is ,to set up one person and let the other get away.
    PERSAUD IS A VICIOUS KILLER BUT he is also a MAN and whatever, like us all, should get JUSTICE .
    WE SHOULD ALL SEE JUSTICE,but I ask you .DO YOU SEE JUSTICE??
    If the answer is NO. like every other problems that takes from us what is ours BY RIGHT and BY LAW.
    We need to GET RID of the OBSTRUCTION that stops us from GETTING our rights.
    We did not see a fair and just trial in EITHER of the Trials of Persaud or Mccollin.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @john

    We have given you a lot of leeway to tell your story. It would be negligent of BU not to remind you that you are using your name and therefore should be correct in your use of language.

    The BU household continues to sympathize.

  24. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @mash up and buy back | December 27, 2012 at 9:27 AM |
    “Is this judge Marie Mccormack the wife of the former chief justice David Simmons?”

    Marie McCormack is the Jamaican wife of former Chief Justice David Simmons. David Simmons is also a former Member of Parliament and Barbados Labour Party Cabinet Minister.

    Ms. McCormack is also former Registrar of the Supreme Court of Barbados.

    These are verifiable facts in the public domain.

  25. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @mash up and buy back | December 27, 2012 at 9:27 AM |
    “I don’t understand the part about a child mccormack had that was taken away,is this a child before her marriage to david simmons?”

    Dear mashup… The MAJORITY of children in the English speaking Caribbean are born before their parents marry.

    This is a verifiable fact.

    But a lot of Caribbean people would be deeply ashamed to write the date of their first child’s birth, and the date of the parents marriage on the same page.

    Personally I don’t understand why.

    We have ALL ENJOYED SEX before marriage.

    But we seem deeply, deeply invested in playing it ain’t so.

    But I don’t know whether or not Ms. McCormack had a child before marriage.

    Because I don’t really check old people’s business.

  26. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    I hear you david Ihear you.

  27. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    Before I was allowed to Leave ,McCorrmack had every “protection” she could think of written into my being allowed to be in UK.She made “rights” for the mother and “conditions ” I must adhere to, she didnt ever mention ONE word about teatment for my daughter or reports to her on that ,just whatever that would give the maximum amount of agravation to an already very difficult situtation.
    You must remember that all this added enourmousely to costs and in Barbados Lawyers are not inexspensive and McCorrmack allowed legal aid to the mother every difficulty McCorrmack could put in my way she did put in my way.
    I had to sell all my farm equipments,anything I could raise money on.
    Oh yes and I had the Sexual assault ploy used,the mother called me in Barbados and said she was informing the police and the “Nation” that I had been having sex with my daughter since she was two.
    It didnt surprise me ,I was only surprised she hadnt tried it earlier.
    I asked her WHY you would filthy the name of your own child.
    She said “if I throw enough Shit , some will stick,you live there and I dont”
    The child care Board did reports ,they submitted to Mccorrmack.The mothers family who had never before acknowledged my daughter was alive,according the the Child care had been intimately involved in her life and saw her to be “some sort of crazy mixed up kid”because of her having to live with me.
    A really illuminating experience,was when one day I sat outside the High court in the waiting area ,my daughters mother sat a few seats along with and old freind,glowering at me.
    At one point I cought her eye,as the area was virtually empty I asked her( I called her by name) Why are you doing all this ??
    She turned Full face onto me and spat the words at me”YOU BASTARD YOU BASTARD”
    You never MARRIED me I am going to FIX you before I am DEAD”
    Mcorrmack cleansing her Concience and her Soul on one side and the Mother on the other side;bent on my destruction BOTH useing an innocent child to do it.
    As I arrived in UK,the next day the police raided the House at around 4 am in the morning,said they were acting on information received.
    I booked and immediate appointment for my daughter with the specialist and went to see him in London .
    He was very unhappy with me and what I was useing to treat my Daughter with.It seemd as tho he thought I had off my own back got this ,”stuff” cheap and used it on the child.
    He said ,why are you useing this ?This type of thing was stopped 20 years ago,I am not surprised your daughter is in shock so often .My God do you think you are injecting a horse”
    This shoots the insulin straight thro into her muscles and she goes into shock.
    He called into a nursing specialist who laid our an array of beautiful proper treatment kits.
    I asked how much they cost?They were free??
    In Barbados I paid over 200$ for a tester ,only to go back to the supplier two weeks later and be told they were obsolete.
    I made a home again for my daughter got her into school and tried to normalise her life,she was terrorised,couldnt sleep,pee’d the bed 3 times a night,had nightmares,the only way I could make her feel safe was to let her sleep in my arms.

    My daughter attended the local diabetic clinic and the results were very good . I learned how to control her sugar levels and keep her life level. NOTHING of what I had was available in Barbados,yet as the 6 months was due up Mcorrmack started ordering me to carry my daughter back to Barbados and all the progress wasted.
    I fought it for a long time
    The specialist sent a letter to Mccorrmack saying my daughter should stay in uk for treatment and that she was not fit enought to undertake international flights.
    McCorrmack wrote back and ORDERED my daughter was brought to Barbados Immediately so that she could be treated where the doctors were competant and would make her fit .
    Then Mcorrmack said IF i did not bring her to Barbados she was making an order that the Mother should take her from me and keep her herself.The mother was in Barbados at the time and McCorrmack did ,make such an order.
    I was at my wits end, and somewhere in my mind was phrase “on the mercy of the Court”
    Why it came in my head I dont know,but at the time I was desperate, so I took my daughter to London to the Supreme Courts.I really didnt know what I was doing but this phrase “the mercy of the courts” just stayed in my head.
    I asked to see a judge and was interveiwed.As I spoke the officers seemed to get very interested and told me they would get me before a Judge in 20 mins.
    I was ushered into a very overpowering court room and a man in robes and wearing a wig asked me to go thro why I had asked for this “mercy of the Court”.He didnt say there was or was not such a thing.
    So I just let go with all my daughter and I had been subjected to by Mcorrmack and everything that was worrying me to death.
    He didnt say much, a question here and there and let me run out of words.
    Then he said he personally would like to thank me for showing up this situation and that I should rest easy as from this moment NO ONE ANYWHERE would ever trouble or move my daughter again .
    He put her under the protection of the Court.
    He said when the mother comes from Barbados with this PIECE OF PAPER she must go to him.

    If he wrote to Mccorrmack or not I do not know ,but I can only presume this is why why Mccorrmack called in Margo Greene at that time, in Barbados, and made the tongue lashing about being “made a fool internationally” or words to that effect.
    My daughter and I then were able to live as human beings again.
    That was until the mother arrived back in UK and realised,Mccorrmacks paper was only good for the toilet.
    So she stated she was unemployed and and invalid and started a High Court action to take my daughter away in the UK getting full legal aid again.
    Around this time I had a sort of medical collapse .I was driving suddenly I felt I couldnt breath,and I felt I was going unconcious.I was near the Hosptal so I just went in went in A&E and they put me in a ward .
    My daughter and I were due to have a meeting with with her mother at a youth center,so I called her and told her I was ill and that as there was no one else, as she had asked and pressured for so long she would at last be able to take my daughter.
    “WHAT” she said” Take her I DONT WANT HER”
    I told her it wasnt a choice,I was ill and she needed careing for.
    In the end after some legal rearranging ,my daughter went to her mother.
    My daughter was distraught and all I could do was ask her mother “PLEASE you know she only knows me,let her be free to talk with me and see me whenever she wants till I am well.”
    Obviously her mother then had to be made her legal carer, when she was, she had orders made that if approached or called I could be arrested.She shut my daughter off to me totally .
    My daughter is now 22 years old now refuses to ackowledge me as her father

  28. Checkit-Out Avatar
    Checkit-Out

    Even though I know of a number of cases where Mothers took children and totally indoctrinated them against fathers and what john jackson says is therefore possible. I think the story of the other side is necessary.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Checkit-out

    We don’t have a domestic court and many of the judges who preside over criminal and corporate matters have to do the domestic thingee. It is messy and most times the odds are stacked against the men.

  30. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    In 2000 I once again went back to Barbados as they say a sadder yet wiser man, and started to pick up the pieces of my life again.Having sold my house in UK I was in funds.
    I got the house back in condition and some of the land,planted some crops and got back in routine
    Believing that all my troubles were now behind me,I decided to start importing as I could see from people there was a need for some sensible quality low priced foods stuffs and started to look around for a premisses.
    I found a place in Blackrock and after some groundwork ,saw that Mr Andrew Bynoe of Carlton AI was the owner.
    We negotiated price and came to an acceptable price for us both.
    Mr Bynoe asked what I would be doing with the property as he did not want a supermarket as it would be a competition for his own one 700 or so meters along the street.
    I advised him ,I wanted a cash and carry and he started to make conditions of what I could or couldnt sell.At which point I lost interest and indicated as such to him.
    He did change tack and say that a cash and carry would be acceptable but not a supermarket, so we struck a deal. I did not realise then that this was not a legal agreement .
    After I had bought the Land. Town and country planning would not look at my Plans,I dont mean would not make a dedcision ,they just ignored them,I wrote to the prime Minister on numerous occassions.So I could only trade from a very small area and this was useless.During that time I was in the small area I ran into endlesss problems with the local blackrock police,the station was run By a Station Sergent Brewster.
    I was attacked by a guy with an axe,the police didnt come, I had robberies and the police didnt take any action.I cought people stealing ,and never saw them in Court.
    After a while I was frustrated so I called the PM office and was able to speak an aid,I asked him if he would be in the office a certain time and he asked me why. I told him I was sick and tired of the runaround I was getting when I was trying to make a business and provide employment and provide sensible prices for the public and that I was going to bring my staff to him in a Minibus at that time and HE can explain why they were allout of work.
    He asked me ,can I give him a few days to deal with it.
    Why not it was 3 years anyway.Not that week but the week after I had a call from T&C would I please come and pick up my plans stamped and passed.
    So I got on building my new cash and carry, as I finished and started to sell from it I had a letter from Mr A Bynoe saying I was in contravention of an agreement NOT to run a supermarket on the site and required me to stop or face legal action.I carried the letter to Hal Golop for his advice,which was good and I discover if I remember rightly Hal called it a “Restraint of trade ” which is not allowable in Law.
    I saw a letter he wrote to MR A Bynoe explaining that any such agreement was not allowable,and to please check the Law before he wasted his time and money on legal action.
    I never heard another word on the matter .
    But had a considerable stiffening of attitude from black rock police,so much so, I asked around a bit from people I knew ,and was told that Sgt Brewster who was “the man” at Blackrock police station was also providing Moonlighters for security work for Carlton Supermarket .I never found out if that was true or not true.
    So I just took it as a coincidence.
    When I was attacked by the guy with an axe I complained bitterly to Black rock police as they did not attend and the uniformed segent told me “you have a licenced weapon sir, why you do not defend yourself.
    Then a local criminal ,was cought by me stealing a case of mixed vegetables, I threw him off the premisses,later as i came back from the bank with change, I had my back to the yard, he jumped out with a bottle in one hand and a big rock in the other and swore and cursed at me and came forward in an aggressive manner and said he would kill me. Luckily I had laid my rifle across the bags of cash,.So I picked it up turned at him and gave him a warning that if he proceeded as he was I would be obliged to disable him. He then decided that discression was the better part from valor and retreated making threats of my imminent demise.
    I called Blackrock police they did not attend, so i drove to blackrock and filed a complaint which they said they would log. Then desk officer was writing what I said.
    I was some time later unloading a container of detergent power at the back of the yard, I again had to go to bank for some change , while I was away the guys unloading called accomplices on the cel phone and a car was loaded with detergent powder.
    I came back quicker than I normally do and saw the car and realised a theft was in progress.I drove my car across the front of the car loaded with the stolen soap and called Black rock police, after an extended period a jeep with two officers came from blackrock.
    I told them what had happened and they told the men to unload the soap.
    Then to my amazement they told them to go along.I was angry and asked what the hell was going on .They just told me I didnt understand the Law of Barbados there was NO ROBBERY because the men were still on my property so nothing had been stolen.Got in the jeep and drove off.
    I went to police complaints in Headquarters in town and filed an official complaint,never heard another word.
    During this time I was in the line for Cheffette and a big lady in a security gaurds uniform in the car in front,said I just bumped her car.I hadnt,but she got on bad and would not move and blocked Cheffette,They called the police,she was told to move,they examined her car and she showed them a damage that had been caused by sticking a # plate on the paintwork and that was small.
    We all went away.later I got a private summons to attend St Mathias court ,I had three witenesses ,she was just on her own and was claiming 1850$. I lost the case and was ordered to pay.Altho all she had said is he hit my car and i had three people who were passengers who said I had not. I said I will not pay I want to appeal.
    Not remembering at the time The Honorable Fredric Waterman was an appeal court Judge.
    When I got to the appeal court, I went into Court and there were 3 judges .The middle one seemed to have all the talk.He told me “We dont want to hear anything from you, just show us HOW you did not damage the womans car”
    I thought that little rude .So I asked him to look at my evidence.I said “its says at the top of the list for damages; 150$ for the estimate” The middle guy looked down his nose at me and said “I CAN READ”
    I said to him, “well you may need to put on your glasses as in very small print at the bottom its states quite clearly.”If the work is done by ****** that the 150$ for the Estimate WILL NOT be charged”.
    I said “and as it has been charged it shows that no work was done and all that you are holding is an Estimate.”
    The middle guy looked at me then the womans lawyer and says to him.”well was work done on the car or not?”
    The Lawyer folds his arms and stands straight and says” I really couldnt say(and whatever the title of the judge was) mlord”
    So I think ,cant say. so I dont pay.
    But then the Middle appeal Court Judge says to me OK ,Yes will take off the 150$ and pay the lady1700$.
    It took me about a month to work that one out.
    I thought about the Honorable freddy and his anger at me refusing to take my Daughter to UK and I realised the middle judge said what he said because he knew I would never pay in a million years .But also the woman got off scot free ,no costs. These guys smart or what.
    After that,I was served while I was in blackrock with papers for a case by a woman sueing me to take away my house as I was married now and had been so happily for a long period, Iwas surprised..
    When I read the papers I saw it was woman that I had a relationship with around 14 years back and we did get married but for a very short time as she was a professional lady who made her living scamming guys.I found out and in UK applied and got a divorce. Years before.Now the strange thing was this matter if it would have had any standing at all,which it didnt , would have only been in the UK AND it was over the time by afew years.
    Even stranger was this lady was NON National and was given legal aid to sue me and had been on the island for a year without papers.
    WOW!!
    TO my SURPRISE when I checked WHO was Chairman of LEGAL aid it was THE HONORABLE FREDRIC WATERMAN.
    So I rang him up I wanted to know how a NON national could get LEGAL AID on case that could only be heard in UK and was out of date anyway.
    SO when I called ,I was a little wary because I know the honorable freddy is no idiot.So I said I am calling about a case before the courts am I allowed to Speak?
    “Yes of course he said!!”
    I said “I AM JOHNJACKSON”
    THAT was as far as I got.
    “AHAAA “HE SHOUTED ” CALLED ME UP TO SEE IF YOU CAN TWIST THINGS ABOUT TO YOUR OWN ADVANTAGE AGAIN HAVE YOU”
    Would you say that is a normal reaction by the Chairman of the legal Aid??
    I said NO not at all .”Youjust told me all I need to know thankyou”
    SO Beverly Waldrond went into Court for me and she told me”Cut and dried ,they must be idiots to even allow this its out of date and not of this Jurusticion”
    Of course they were idiots, they could afford to be ,THE TAXPAYER FOOTS THE BILL and JOHNJACKSON get the problems.
    MS Waldrond as is her way was absolutely right the case was dismissed and John Jackson awarded 12500$ costs.
    WE came out of court and the Legal Aid lawyer was there with the woman .
    I said” I dont want to talk to this woman Beverly just arrange payment of my Costs please”
    Beverly as bold as brass tells me.” Costs, not me .” “YOU DONT KNOW WHO YOU ARE UP AGAINST” “Get another lawyer to get your costs”
    So is there is another Lawyer out there my costs still need collecting , we can do a deal.
    You see what I mean about these people never forgetting or giving up.WHO THE HELL COULD I BE UP AGAINST there are only these FEW people on the Island who have ever butt up on me.
    The last section is the most serious ,I feel that a continuation of “slap Down” on me was the cause of ANNA’s death.A course of events set in motion,to punish me,that ended up as an Horrific murder

  31. David Avatar
    David

    You can’t make this stuff up!

  32. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Got to be real careful of young men and women who seek to associate themselves with [seemingly] rich white foreigners.

    The question should always be asked why me? why not a fella/girl from your village? Why not a fella/girl that you went to school wid? or went to Sunday school wid?

    Only proceed when you have received clear and truthful answers to these questions.

  33. BAFBFP Avatar
    BAFBFP

    I luv this BU thing … This year has been the best to date … WOW imagine what next year will hold. Andrew is my friend … or use to be … HA HA HA

  34. David Avatar
    David

    @John Jackson

    ALL have all read your account with rap attention but there are some clarifications we need to better understand your account:

    St Matthias is a magistrates court not a high court and the matter of a traffic accident would be heard by a magistrates court. How are you making a jump from magistrates court to court of appeal? You should be aware also that transcripts are always available from the high court?

    Is usually the job of the lawyer who won the case to deal with the taxation the costs. Regarding how the matter of costs was awarded. Please clarify.

    You say that you moved from Hal Gollop to Dawn Searles, Beverley Waldrond, Margot Greene and others. Why did you have to change so many lawyers?

  35. Bdos Underground Talkshop Avatar
    Bdos Underground Talkshop

    Incredible!

  36. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    David

    Appeals from the Magistrates’ courts go to the Court of Appeal.

    Sent from my iPad

  37. David Avatar
    David

    @Caswell

    Then transcripts are available.

  38. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    David

    I am still waiting several years for a transcript of an appeal that I was involved in. I appealed against a ruling in the Magistrates’ court: in the appeal the Magistrate conceded that she was wrong but the Court of Appeal still ruled against me. I applied for a transcript but the decision was too perverse I suppose.

    I represented myself and after I made one of my submissions, the presiding judge, Peter Williams said that was and intellectual argument and that I was not an intellectual so I was not qualified to make that argument. I was merely pointing out that the magistrate was not qualified to make the particular decision, and that the matter could only be decided by a judge. The magistrate conceded the point but I was not supposed to win.

  39. Amy L. Beam Avatar
    Amy L. Beam

    Regarding getting transcripts, after Crane-Scott’s sentencing and court was adjourned, I asked the clerk, martial and officials inside the court room for a transcript of the judgment and I was told REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY that I was not allowed to have a copy. They said they had never heard of such a thing, that a person is allowed to have a transcript. In vernacular, this is stonewalling, pure and simple. Not having grown up in Barbados, I’m no fool, so I just kept repeating my question to have them tell me the procedures for getting the transcript.

    It took me 15 minutes of haggling until the clerk agreed to ask if I could have a copy of the judgment. After an hour of waiting I was given the website and told it would be posted by the next morning. After TWO days of endless phone calling and messages, it was posted. I do not think it would have been posted this soon without the pressure.

    When I entered, I was told I could not take notes and ordered to put my notepad away. What kind of secret court system is Barbados running when no one can take notes even with paper and pen and everyone is told they cannot have a copy of the transcript?

    On my first court attendance, I was told I was not permitted into the court room until Persaud’s case was called, even though criminal court is supposed to be open to the public. I asked repeatedly to be allowed into the court, but was refused. So I had to wait outside for an hour while other cases were heard. The criminal court is SUPPOSED to be open to the public! When Persaud’s case was called, I was escorted in, told where to sit, with all eyes on me, as if I were the accused. And then the judge let lose on me about sending my Victim Impact Statement to her. When she finished, the clerk escorted me out even though court was not adjourned.

    On the day of the sentencing, I had to INSIST I be let in to the court room as soon as the judge was seated. I could not enter before then.

  40. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Caswell
    I represented myself and after I made one of my submissions, the presiding judge, Peter Williams said that was and intellectual argument and that I was not an intellectual so I was not qualified to make that argument
    ***********************
    And wunnah criticise Waterman for his statement “you are up here and they are down there” or words to that effect. Seems like the Judiciary and or the Barbadian Intelligentsia are prone to making condescending remarks to the Hoi Polloi.

    BTW Caswell ever hear the phrase “ A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”?

  41. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Sargeant wrote“ A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”?

    Not in Barbados Sargeant.

    A fool and his money soon parteth and de Lawyers taketh.

  42. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Sargeant

    The actual saying is: A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.

    I am not a lawyer. Mind you, our system jails semi-literate people, usually young men, who are forced to represent themselves, against trained prosecutors, because their offence is not covered by legal aid. They find themselves without representation before a prosecuting magistrate and a trained prosecutor, so nine chances out of ten they are convicted. I believe that most of them would not be at Dodds if they had lawyers.

    Sent from my iPad

  43. mash up and buy back Avatar
    mash up and buy back

    What the jackson legal scenario is showing up more clearly than others is what the poor,not highly connected man or woman must endure at the hands of judicial officers.

    Remember we are the ones who paid for their education but insted of getting thanks from the lawyers we get rip-off by many and get treated as though we are dumb-wits.

    I mash -up calling Right Now for a stipulation to be made for all students doing a Law Degree and using tax payers dollars – TO BE REQUIRED TO GIVE BACK AT LEAST 40 HOURS OF PRO BONO WORK TO NEEDY PERSONS AFTER THEY HAVE QUALIFIED..

    The truth is that the average black bajan or even white bajan would not have the courage to speak out about judges and big name lawyers and even if they tried the newspapers,radio or t.v. companies will not allow them.

    Fear of being victimised pervades everything in this small country.

    While I am sure that all things may not be exactly as John Jackson sees it,I am glad that he has vented if only to remind us that in this paradise underneath the glitter there are certain powers and factors at work.

    But then again,this can be said I suppose about any country,some countries more so than others.

  44. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    @ David

    Clarification.

    Sequence:
    Cases started Hal as lawyer,
    pause in proceedings
    then
    Hal unwell
    Margo Greene asked to assist,I am in Uk getting my daugher treated Margo dealing with the iodocies being doled out to me.
    Beverly Waldrond is an /the expert on the matter that was in hand ,I may be a “fool” on a small matter but in big matters I get a professional “fool”
    Was two totally different matters .
    Like a GP for a cold and a surgeon for a brain operation.

    Dawn Sheilds Searle was a lawyer my Daughters mother used NEVER myself.

    As a matter of fact, ONCE at the very very start of the case I went into Court with Sir Henry Ford, lovely man ,I have great respect for him
    Mc Cormac told him in chambers “Sit down and shut up Henry” and he did,cost me 4750B$ for that. Bow Wow.I needed a dog that bites.
    Also as “new boy on the block” BLP and DLP ??What the Hell that mean???
    Now I know.

    St Mathias Mag court yes.
    The lady awarded costs against me of 1850B$
    She was as I understand the security gaurd there.( or worked there in some way)
    Because the clerk came across to her as she sat in front of me and said her name and told her “You de star of de show today girl”

    I got the papers and filed my own appeal.It hardly makes me foolish to make a clear obvious submission to a court,what it makes them when they turn the Law upside down to get at me .You only can answer. It was like an, In and OUT 15 minute thing.

    Transcripts: .Yes I am aware they SHOULD be available, as to actually being available I think that would depend on who you were and WHO wanted or DIDNT want you to have them.

    Police action SHOULD be available after I was attacked with an Axe by a guy,It never arrived.
    Persaud stole(alledgedly) 100,000$ from me and tried to kill/stab me with a big kitchen knife.
    Police should have taken action. NEVER DID.
    SHOULD SHOULD SHOULD.
    You EVER know ANYTHING on BIM that SHOULD happen THAT DOES happen?Apart from you paying the Government anything you owe and maybe getting Born and BURIED.
    I am 100% for Barbados,wanted to be buried there(after having died naturally of course)
    I accept without reservation the warts , scars and local idosyncrasy, love it , it REAL its LIFE.
    Colour there as many “Bras bowls” White as Black,some people you would invite in your home other never ,its NOT because of Colour its because of them.
    When I was on my own up at Palmers ,a rough looking black guy came in for grapefruit,looked as tho he would cut your throat and not flinch.(he was actually a butcher)We had a chat he met my little daughter he went with his grapefruit.About two hours later he came back with a BIG pot of Rice and one of Stew and said he could see it was difficult for me so he got his Madam do a cookup for me and my daughter.
    We still good buddies.No white person ever did so for me.
    What I cannot live with is degradation of Human Rights, and an elite that can,have people eliminated physically or financially. Black or White.
    A Psuedo Democracy.
    A lot of my Black freinds say”John you gotta learn HOW to make that skin work for you”
    Count me out on that one.
    I dont want nothing that aint Rightfully Mine or LEGALLY mine.
    BUT WHEN IT IS I WANT IT.

  45. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    @
    .DAVID
    Sorry I missed out costs.in the Case where Ms Waldon acted for me..
    Obviously not being the “fool” on that occassion ,the costs were asked for and allowed by the court,I remember the judge saying to(the clerk?) ,enter that Mr Jackson awarded 12500$ costs,I presumed that my Lawyer would know how to claim.So thats what I asked her to do.

  46. Dee Rollins Avatar
    Dee Rollins

    A hurt, angry, sad, horrified & disappointed Amy Beam just left my house. We were discussing the case in it’s entirety & I smell a rat.
    Where is justice? Did he just call it a day & walked out of that courtroom?
    I am a mother, & I cannot imagine some person or persons brutally murdering my innocent child in cold blood……… for what?

    I cannot imagine what the parents of this beautiful young lady went through when they discovered that their child’s life was taken……. & how!
    Not to mention close friends like Amy who suffered along with the parents of Anna. Not once but twice Amy experienced the murder of this poor beautiful, innocent young lady, who had her whole life ahead of her.
    Never will she be married & have kids, making her parents doting, proud grandparents
    .
    Those monsters who took the life of Anna never showed remorse for the brutal murder of this young lady. Never once did they apologized for this senseless murder. YES MURDER!
    So devastated were her parents, they had to go as far away from the scene of their daughter’s “Murder” in an attempt to live a somewhat normal life.

    Justice was never served in this case. The system failed Anna, her parents, friends & the Society on a whole.
    Let a family member of a prosecutor, judge or police officer (God forbid) ever fall at the hands of monsters such as those who took the life of beautiful Anna, you will see the gallows swing & swing high!
    Sad indeed is the day when justice was ignored & cold blooded killers were given a slap on the wrist & a paid vacation in full at that five star hotel we call Dodds.
    What a sad, sad, sad day indeed.

  47. David Avatar
    David

    Agree that the guilty person in this case should have had to face a firing squad and be buried in an unmarked grave.

  48. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Caswell at 9:30 am “the presiding judge, Peter Williams said that was and intellectual argument and that I was not an intellectual so I was not qualified to make that argument.”

    Is there a published list of “qualified” Bajan intellectuals, and if so where can I get a copy? And is Peter Williams the keeper of this list?

    Read a document once prepared by one of our expensively educated lawyers, and I tell you if my little Johnny who is in class 3 had written something so badly, I would disown him. I hope to God that she is NOT on the intellectuals list, since she is clearly semi-literate. I really don’t understand how UWI could have graduated her.

    Damn waste of my tax money.

  49. Amy L. Beam Avatar
    Amy L. Beam

    Dee, thank you for your understanding and vocal support. I know you understand what Anna’s parents are suffering, since you have been through something similar in this country. I wonder how many assaults and murders are never reported. I think the public should be told the annual count, same way we are informed of the annual number of traffic deaths.

  50. john jackson Avatar
    john jackson

    After the robbery of 100,000$ from our business strongroom,which I alledge PERSAUD carried out and when I went to him and asked he return the cash and Him then alledged by me to have attacked me with a Large Knife in the course of which he got shot in the upper left arm,the police attended ,Persaud was removed I was asked questions by the police and they kept my gun as it had to be as evidence they said.
    They sent me home, no question of arrest.They saw the situtation and acted on what they saw.
    The next dayI went into Blackrock policestation at around 9 am “to clear up the papwerwork” was how the officer worded it.Again no question of arrest.
    The officer was just in the process of finishing the paperwork,when the Station Sergeant Brewster came into/on duty in the room.
    He was just walking caually and cooly ,on seeing me he stopped in his tracks and had a very breif exchange of words in a whispered fashion so I could not hear.(that in itself struck me as strange and unsettled me somewhat) I mean all I saw of the man after suggested he was overbearing ,and made it clear “he was the man”
    So why have a schoolboy like whispering session instead of his normal(I
    am in charge ) attitude.After the very brief exchange , he straitened to his full height and turned to me, pushed his finger very strongly into my chest and shoved me backward into the chair.He had a real”GOTCHA” look on his face.He then spoke very strongly and clearly , no whispering” STAY THERE YOU I AM DEALING WITH THIS NOW”
    He took the policeman dealing with the matter off the paperwork, and I was kept in limbo for the next day and a half,I was not offered any drink or food until late evening,then I was put into a cell at Disrict A , I suffered an Asthma Panic attack, they put me in handcuffs and two police men pulled me out and shoved me into the back of a police car and to QEH.I was seen by a lady doctor, who treated me with absolute distain, as I was in hand cuufs so obviously worthless, she said I was not in any danger and ,the two policeman bodily shoved me out thro the waiting room and back in the car.
    Making comments about “he smart mekin like he asthmatic”
    Back to district A,I could not breath properly and asked to sit by a window.They shoved me back in the cell after having taken away my Asthama inhalers .
    I asked for my inhalers ,they ignored me.
    The next day I was taken from the cell to a shower block where I was watched by police to have a shower and put back on my clothes and taked back to blackrock.In all this time NO ONE said why I was being held .
    I had called Hal Gollop but he was off Island((unavailable) his son Steve came,they would nor let me have station bail, altho I undertstand now it should have been done.
    Steve did virtually nothing and left ,the situation for me remained as it was before he arrived.
    After we arrived at Blackrock I was sat on a bench and ignored.
    Later they asked me did I want to make a statement and i said no why should I ,I just acted in self defence and what were they doing about the robbery and the attack on me.They never answered at any time on those questions.
    Just , Stn Sgt Brewster who came up to me and said aggressivly”you seem to be worrying more about the money than the man you shot”
    Later around 12.30 I was told I would be put before the court on a charge on Serious Bodily Harm.
    I protested that it was ridiculous, Persaud robbed me and attacked me.
    I was ignored.
    Later I was taken to the police in town fingerprinted and photographed.
    The police officer who had been at the incident three days before was not allowed to go into Court
    .He told me that they ( Brewster) told him to wait in the charge room.
    Now he saw and knew ALL that had gone on and Sgt Brewster stopped him giving his evidence to the Magistrate.
    Do you not think that is unusual?
    Why?.He saw and knew everything,yet his sergent who had been at home in bed at the time of the incident or at least nowhere near the incident, chose to order him away from the Court and give evidence to the magistrate himself.
    I regard that as very suspect.
    I was led across the Courtyard a policeman holding my arm and up the stairs and into the court of Mis Pamela Beccles.
    A very stern but totally proper person.
    The court was convened and the hearing began,when it came to giving evidence SGT BREWSTER STOOD UP.
    He said he wanted me incarcerated in Dodds as of now.
    Miss Beccles appeared surprised, and said Why”? I have had you bring men here who have KILLED someone in self defence” You have NEVER asked for That.”
    Stg Brewster said” I MAY HAVE TO UPGRADE THE CHARGES”
    Miss Beccles seemed to relax a little and said AHH! Murder??”
    Sgt Brewster COULD NOT answer.
    Ms Beccles asked him again he did not answer.
    Miss Beccles said ,have you a doctors certificate??
    NO maam said Sgt Brewster,
    WEll have you seen the man said Ms Beccles
    No Maam Said Sgt Brewster!
    Miss Becles appeared be getting a little irate
    She said pointedly “Well have you SPOKEN to the man then!!”
    Brewster quietly said “No maam”
    Ms Beccles said in a very strong tone.
    I AM NOT HAVING THIS RUBBISH IN MY COURT I AM GOING TO ADJOURN AND RING QEH and see how this man is ”
    She did and we sat and waited patiently and me very nervously, as an everyday honest normal business man being threatened with incarceration in Dodds was a very sobering thought.
    Then Ms Beccles came back into court obviously not happy.
    Blammed the desk with her hand and practically shouted at Sgt Brewster .
    “RUBBISH !!”NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MAN” “he is SITTING UP IN BED EATING HIS FOOD” Give Mr Jackson his Bail and let HIM GO HOME”!
    So I was released.
    It was also reported by the nurses on the ward persaud was in ,that he was issueing theats about getting even while he was ther and the police were visiting him.
    Ther was also at that very time a warrant out for PERSAUDS arrest as he had beaten up a man called Allan Aker and burst Allans Eardrums.Sgt Brewster did not take any actoin on the warrant.if he had my diaghter ANNA would be alive today as PERSAUD would have been serving time for the attack.
    After the hearing I went into Blackrock and asked for my Gun Back as the Commissioner of police ofice advised me they should as I was NOT guilty of any Crime and it was a properly licenced weapon .
    Sgt Brewster refused to instruct it be returned to me. I told him.”are you try to get me and my family killed”
    “This man (PERSAUD) already atacked me,you know I lived out in the wilds and have to carry money”
    He just gave a sort of half smile,shrugged his shouldes, turned his back and walked away.
    Sgt Brewster NEVER did charge PERSAUD for the robbery on me or his attack on me.He NEVER reporte or acted on the reports from the nurses that PERSAUD was threatening revenge on me and he ignorde the warrent already our on PERSAUD for the injuries PERSAUD inflicted on Mr Aker.
    When I asked the police about PERSAUD and why SGT BREWSTER failed to charge him .”WE ARE CHARGING YOU ,WE CANNOT CHARGE HIM IT WOULD CAUSE A CONFLICT” was the police answer.

    Now IF you had just witnessed your self all of this what would be immediate thoiughts that would jump in your head.
    YES I think exactly the same. IT STINKS.
    Even after PERSAUD murdered ANNA they still persue the charges on me and go to the extreme of wanting to sit PERSAUD NEXT to me in the Magistrates Court.Well WE ARE both on ACCUSED bench aren’t we.
    OR do you think there is another motive by whoever arrages things?
    Let me ask you a question?
    IF your young girl child had been tortured and murdered bu Ftlth like Persaud, and they sat him close next to you .?
    WHAT WOULD YOU DO???
    Could it possible be that they did this on purpose for EXACTLY that result or are they just TOTALLY without feeling.
    YOUR CALL?

    Charles LEACOCK DPP of Barbados:
    I was at a small dinner party and everybody was just chattering.I never knew who the hell this little runt of a guy was, he sat opposite me but up the table to my right,well dressed quite handsome in that slick sort of greasy Guyanese devious but smart look, as you do when in new company I just sat chatted and looked around and did mental evaluations of people.He seemed hog the limelight and enjoy the deference some people were showing him,so I tried to place him in a catagorie, I concluded by his dress and talk ,not poor and his hands were clean and well kept, that he was either a Lawyer or a Pimp.
    Dont laught and say how you tell the difference,I really thought that.
    I thought “Jesus, COUNT YOUR FINGERS AFTER YOU EVER SHAKE HANDS WITH HIM”
    These were just fleeting thoughts, and the conversation came up about the Chinese State Construction co ,who by the conversation ,had build or were going to build DPP Charles Leacock house,if I understood right.
    Of course I hadnt been introduced to him so I didnt put the fats to the face.
    So I put my two cents worth in as i had just employed them to do a renovation for me and they had robbed me.Started work got me to pay and then disappeared to do the Government Building at Warrens for MILLIONS so my mottley job was History,.
    So I tolf my little bit and how theywould only do the job if I paid in cash of shore into 3 nmaes Chinese accounts in NEWYork.
    Well as I finish “Shorty” across and up the table declares in a huge pompous voice “I CAN HAVE YOU ALL PUT IN PRISON” and directed at me.
    The room goes quiet and I am a little embarrassed and MORE than a little pissed off,that this short assed sod is talking to me like he IS something, because now to me he is looking more like PIMP every second, of course then I didnt know at all that I was talking/ looking at a man that would figure so stongly later in my life called DPP LEACOCK.
    Had hje been closer I would have “batted his ball” so I just called back.”Dont talk wahtever you can do; do it ”
    Who the hell was this short assed moron?
    Did he not hear I have been robbed by these slant eyed buggers and HE is saying I CAN BE IMPRISONED.
    The host realising that things were getting a bit tetchy called “John this is Charles Leacock DPP here in Barbados”
    Truthfully I didnt give aFlying Fart who this pompous little person was.
    Obviously totally without class to do as he did.
    He looked across the table at me and in a normal voice repeated what he had said.
    I said “well then you better do then hadnt you!”
    Case closed as far as I was concerned,
    After dinner the host said “Charles ” would like to have word with me, which he did in a reasobable but authorative tone .Just tolet me know WHO I was in conversation with.
    He asked the facts and said he thought he could mediate with the Chinese co as he knew them very well.
    Well now my hard earned and lost cash came back on the Horizon I was all ears.
    Later I had several telephone conversation with DPP Leacock about the matter and it went exactly NOWHERE.
    I had to engage a Lawyer and sue the company .after all I had signed contracts and bank slips they had been paid in full IN ADVANCE and anybody with one eye could see the work as described in the contract was not done.
    Strangely my papers wereNEVER presented to the Court , a court date was NEVER given, the chinese then counter summonsed me that I owed them money and stopped them from doing the work.
    Now I know I smart BUT so smart as to pay ALL IN FRONT and then STOP the company from WORKING.
    NO Nobody is THAT smart.
    So the thing dragged on and on and ON.
    No court date No NOTHING.
    One day I am walking into First Caribbean Bank, to confirm a cheque that had been given to me when WHO do I see ,legs croosed ,very smart and looking 100% the part BUT DPP CHARLES LEACOCK.
    So I sit next to him.He does not acknowledge me. “Hello Charles.” feigned surprise”oh hello John”
    “Charles what happened to my money and the China State Construction Company”???

    Charles Leacock DPP of Barbados replied ” ITS GOING NOWHERE WALK AWAY FROM IT” and then I think I went Invisible because it appeared he could not see me as ,he never said another word and just studied the large breasted girl at the counter.Well I looked where he was looking and thats what I could see.
    NOW IN Barbados I THOUGHT to make STATEMENT like that the DPP would have at least to have some sort of trial or some legal process.BUT I never got called to one ,so HOW did THIS MAN DPP OF BARBADOS come to that conclusion??
    I have to contact the Rodent officer and get this place looked at ,DEFINATELY I can SMELL a rat around here someplace.??
    You got that problem too??
    Would you buy a used car from this man??
    Now I revert to the question of evidence given BY DPP CHARLES LEACOCK. by now you have read the reports by newpaper official court reporters.
    Do they or do they not say the DPP CHARLES Leacock gave evidence at each trail that contradicted TOTALLY his previously given evidence at other hearings.
    Now I am not a lawyer so ergo a fool but I didnt THINK that could happen under the current Laws of Barbados.Am I wrong??

    PS MY 12500 $ costs that the Legal aid should have paid me is still outstanding
    Is there a Lawyer out there with Balls that is willing to collect for me.50/50 split.Now that cant be bad can it.
    OR DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM UP AGAINST???

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