Police witness said they did not push Maloney
by Heather Greenidge (Advocate)
NEITHER of the two police officers who were first on the scene at Landlock, St. Lucy touched I’Akobi Tacuma Maloney.
That’s according to the evidence yesterday of acting Sergeant Wingrove Headley, who also told the inquest into the death of Maloney that neither he nor colleague, Police Constable Walkes “had any physical contact” with Maloney.
“There was no verbal confrontation with him, we did not push him over and we did not cause him to jump,” the policeman added.
Questioned by Coroner Faith Marshall-Harris about the veracity of his statement, he said, “My statement is true and correct.”
He added that the call he got at the Police Station was about suspected drug activity in the area and when he arrived there, there wa at least another team of policemen in the area of Cove Bay, responding to the same call.
The policeman said he was not equipped with binoculars and was unable to see the make of the ‘whitish boat’.
He added that Maloney’s boxer shorts did not appear to be wet.
Under cross-examination by attorney Andrew Pilgrim, about the notes that he took at the scene, the acting sergeant said he did not make any notes in his police official notebook, adding that he rushed out without it.
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