Statements completed
Stabroek News
December 17, 2002
The soldiers who intercepted the men and a large cache of arms, ammunition and other paraphernalia at Good Hope earlier this month were expected to submit their statements to the police yesterday.
According to a senior police officer, the submission of the soldiers' statements would allow investigations to go ahead. The police are yet to decide whether charges will be laid against policeman Sean Belfield and civilians Shaheed Khan, Haroon Gahya, Christopher Small and Rajesh Sahadeo.
Belfield, Khan and Gahya were nabbed two Wednesdays ago, after an army patrol intercepted a bullet-proof pick-up vehicle with a laptop computer programmed to trace cellular phone users, a town plan of Georgetown and a quantity of high-powered assault rifles and submachine gun. Small and Sahadeo were arrested the following day after several houses in and around the city were raided.
However, the men were subsequently released on $500,000 bail each after habeas corpus proceedings be-fore a High Court judge. Ever since, there has been a public outcry over the delay by the police in charging the men.
