Lawyer: Crooks says he has no faith in justice system
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
HAROLD Crooks' lawyer said his client told him yesterday that he would not be returning to Jamaica because he had no faith in the justice system.
"He said that he is innocent, but that he has no faith in the justice system and he is not coming back," attorney Vincent Wellesley told the Observer.
Crooks, the former Island Special Constabulary Force Commandant, is being sought by the police who are investigating allegations that he and another man sexually assaulted an underaged girl.
Yesterday, a source told the Observer that Crooks, for whom the police launched a manhunt last weekend, had left the island on March 17.
According to the source, the former police commandant left the island a day before he was scheduled to meet with investigators at the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse.
Crooks had failed on at least one other occasion to meet with the investigators.
Yesterday, Wellesley told the Observer that his client called him from a private number.
"He said he is an old man and that if he is convicted he will die in prison," said Wellesley.
Several visits to Crooks' home and to a radio station where he was a correspondent on a popular programme, had proven futile, the police said.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
HAROLD Crooks' lawyer said his client told him yesterday that he would not be returning to Jamaica because he had no faith in the justice system.
"He said that he is innocent, but that he has no faith in the justice system and he is not coming back," attorney Vincent Wellesley told the Observer.
Crooks, the former Island Special Constabulary Force Commandant, is being sought by the police who are investigating allegations that he and another man sexually assaulted an underaged girl.
Yesterday, a source told the Observer that Crooks, for whom the police launched a manhunt last weekend, had left the island on March 17.
According to the source, the former police commandant left the island a day before he was scheduled to meet with investigators at the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse.
Crooks had failed on at least one other occasion to meet with the investigators.
Yesterday, Wellesley told the Observer that his client called him from a private number.
"He said he is an old man and that if he is convicted he will die in prison," said Wellesley.
Several visits to Crooks' home and to a radio station where he was a correspondent on a popular programme, had proven futile, the police said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...-to-Ja_7501978
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