Coroner wants to return to scene
by MARIA BRADSHAW
CORONER Faith Marshall-Harris may revisit the locus in quo at Landlock, St Lucy, where I’Akobi Maloney met his death, to clarify the geography of the area.
From the start of the inquest witnesses have been referring to Landlock as either Cove Bay or Little Bay, areas on either side of Land Lock, and the coroner believes that this may have led to confusion about where Maloney died.
She made this observation on Monday while she continued the inquest into the young man’s death.
She noted that several witnesses, especially the police, had given conflicting statements about the location.
She made the remark after Station Sergeant Warren Morris testified that he told Marguerita Maloney that police were responding to a report at Cove Bay and that they were talking to her son when he jumped over a cliff.
When asked by the coroner why he referred to the area as Cove Bay, Morris said he thought the entire area was named Cove Bay and he only subsequently discovered that the spot where Maloney was confronted by police was in fact Landlock.
Marshall-Harris then noted that because of the confusion surrounding the name of the location, people felt there was an attempt to cover up what happened.
She said she would revisit the area and also seek information from authorities at the Coastal Zone Management Unit to establish whether Maloney’s body could have been carried from Landlock to Cove Bay by the tide.
Earlier, Sergeant Morris testified that on June 18 a hysterical Marguerita Maloney visited Crab Hill Police Station demanding to know what had happened to her son.
He said at times she was hysterical and at times she was calm.
He added that she said the police had killed her son, that the police would burn, and that “someone will pay for this”.
Tags: Coastal Zone Management Unit, Crab Hill, Faith Marshall-Harris, locus in quo, Marguerita Maloney, Station Sergeant Warren Morris