Cop Marked
A THREAT has been made against one of the police officers who was with I’Akobi Maloney at Land Lock, St Lucy, when he died.
The DAILY NATION understands that a stone was thrown through the window of Acting Sergeant Walter Headley’s home last week, wrapped in newspaper with the words: “You are a dead man Mr Headley”, written on it.
According to a senior police officer, the newspaper also carried a report of Headley’s testimony at the Coroner’s Inquest into Maloney’s death.
The police are now investigating the matter.
This is the second time that a threat has been made against someone involved in the very public and controversial case.
On November 17, a verbal threat was overheard being made against Coroner Faith Marshall-Harris at the Coroner’s Court on Roebuck Street where the inquest was being conducted.
On that occasion police officers began searching everyone entering the court.
Headley had testified that he and Constable Wendell Walkes came across Maloney on June 17, pacing up and down a cliff at Land Lock, St Lucy.
They interviewed him and asked him to accompany them to the police station but while walking back to their vehicle Maloney suddenly turned back, ran and casually jumped over a cliff 50 feet to his death.
Since his death there has been much concern and suspicion from the public and Maloney’s family surrounding the circumstances of his death.
Maloney, a 23-year-old Barbados exhibition winner, had just resigned from his job as a trainee chemical engineer at the Arawak Cement Plant.
Tags: Constable Wendell Walkes, Faith Marshall-Harris, threat, Wingrove Headley