Commissioner of Police Henry Greene said the letter he received from the attorney representing mining camp owner Leonard Arokium about a mobile phone of one of the deceased being in active use did not provide enough information, but the matter has since been handed to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.
In a brief invited comment to Stabroek News yesterday, Greene said he received the letter from Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes but had no idea as to the telephone number being referred to.
“We have to get our hands on that number and be provided with more information so that we could do our verification and follow the matter up,” Greene told this newspaper.
According to him, Persaud will follow up and acquire the necessary information.
Hughes wrote to Greene on Friday saying he has received credible and verifiable information that the mobile phone of one of the men killed at the camp continued to be in active use.
In the letter, which this newspaper has seen, Hughes said information revealed that the mobile phone owned by Dax Arokium, which he had in his possession at the time of the June murders, has been in active use since the Lindo Creek crime scene ceased to be secured by the joint services.
Hughes also told Greene that independent investigations have also revealed that the use of the mobile phone continued even after Rondell `Fineman’ Rawlins was killed last month. Hughes said he was instructed to alert the commissioner to the development as this might prove to be of “some use in continued investigations into the murders.” This newspaper has since learnt that many of the calls made from the mobile phone have been traced to several persons and homes in Linden. The user of the phone could have critical information on what happened at Camp Lindo. The persons to whom the calls were made would also be important.
Leonard Arokium has maintained that he felt that the killings could not have been done by Fineman saying he believed elements of the joint services were behind the killings.
Leonard Arokium stumbled on what appeared to be the burnt remains of his eight workers, which included his son and brother, Dax and Cecil Arokium.
Police, from the outset, had blamed the killings on Fineman and his gang but Arokium argued that it would defy all logic for Fineman and his men to have done it if indeed they were the ones who had fled from Christmas Falls on June 6.
If they had fled Christmas Falls, they would have retreated across the Berbice River. To execute the Lindo Creek killings they would have had to re-cross the Berbice River – something that would have posed logistical challenges – travel 10 miles and moreover they would have had to sweep past police and army units who had swarmed the area in the aftermath of June 6 to get to the Lindo Creek camp, Leonard Arokium had said.
He argued that the Joint Services knew where his camp was as they had shared supplies with some of his workers before, including his son Dax.
The police had denied the essence of some of what Leonard Arokium had said claiming they had a witness who would substantiate their version. No witness has since been presented.
