PPP member Kwame McCoy, ex-policeman Shawn Hinds and Jason Abdulla are to be charged with throwing a bowl of faeces at newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon in 2010, well-placed sources say.
The charges could be instituted as early as tomorrow and the trio arraigned in court.
Stabroek News understands that police received legal advice today to lay charges. The trio is currently in custody in connection with last year’s killing of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.
It is unclear how the other two were linked to the incident but well-placed sources say that Abdulla on Wednesday confessed his involvement to police.
However, the man’s lawyer Glen Hanoman told Stabroek News today that his client was badly beaten and forced to say he was involved in the crime. “He was made to sign the paper after being beaten and told that if he doesn’t admit he would be charged for the Crum-Ewing murder”, Hanoman told this newspaper.
Asked what the paper said, Hanoman said it had to do with his client allegedly being in a “position to see something”.
In an invited comment today Kissoon said that he always knew that the planners of the crime committed against him were closely associated with the previous government.
He recalled that on Tuesday he was contacted by a policeman who inquired if following the attack he had given a statement and if so where. Kissoon said that he told the rank that a statement was given at the Alberttown Police Station and he provided the name of the rank who had taken his information.
Abdulla was an Office of the President staffer under the PPP/C government.
Kissoon said that if one cannot walk on the seawall without fear it destroys a country. He said that it is symbolic when police catch people who drive such fear into the populace as it shows that the police are fearless. He said that since the incident he has moved on with his life but still wants justice.
Kissoon told Stabroek News that he has absolutely no doubt that the attack was planned at “very, very high levels”.
Kissoon said that he can recognize the man who attacked him and is prepared to testify if needs be.
The bizarre attack occurred on May 24 near the Nigel’s Supermarket.
He had recounted to this newspaper that he had just returned to his car after an unplanned stop at the supermarket, when a “very squatty guy” threw a bowl of pungent human faeces directly into his face. This was around 7 pm so the area was dark.
Kissoon, who was already in his vehicle, related that he chased the man from Cummings Street to the vicinity of the Merriman Mall where he got into a waiting white car with a licence plate number which began with PKK. He added that his attacker was dark, squatty and wearing a cap.
“He just threw it in my face and ran and I drove after him and I was trying to knock him with my car but he went into the car and then the car came at me and I had to swerve,” Kissoon told the media and the police who were there to take statements.
Kissoon believes that the attack was sparked by one of his articles which was published that day.
Many had condemned the attack on Kissoon.
