Working People’s Alliance (WPA) supporter Jocelyn Dow yesterday said she believed that the then PNC government also wanted to “get rid” of Donald Rodney the night his brother Walter Rodney was killed.
Continuing her evidence-in-chief yesterday at the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 1980 bombing death of Dr. Walter Rodney in a car near the Georgetown Prison, Dow said after conducting much investigation into Rodney’s death, she was open to the idea that a single “gunshot” fired minutes after the fatal explosion was intended for his brother. She said when WPA members and supporters began to investigate the circumstances leading up to Rodney’s death, they unearthed “frightening” information about the night he was killed.
Lead counsel for the CoI Glen Hanoman questioned whether any of the information would assist the commission as it relates to whether the cause of the explosion in which Dr. Rodney died was an act of terrorism and if so, who were the perpetrators.
Dow indicated that she received information from people around the area where Rodney was killed and some of them attested