Georgetown : 10 days have been given to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, to explain how she arrived at her decision to recommend that a rape charge be instituted against Police Commissioner Henry Greene. It was just about one week ago that acting Chief Justice Ian Chang had ordered the DPP’s attorney to lodge with the court all the statements in the case, including those by the Commissioner and those by the woman who claims she was raped by the Commissioner.
However, the DPP has failed to explain how she arrived at her decision and gave the court a bland statement that did not go down well with the Chief Justice. He pointed out that the DPP was not being asked whether she had sufficient evidence, but rather to say how she made her decision to advice the rape charge. The Commissioner is seeking to have the High Court quash the DPP’s recommendation that he be charged with rape. In presenting the documents as an annex to her affidavit, the DPP did not explain her decision. Justice Chang warned state attorney Naresh Harnanan that he was not interested in the lawyer’s analysis, but rather, he wanted the analysis of the DPP.
Harnanan begged of the court for 10 days to submit the DPP’s analysis in writing.
Last week the Transparency Institute of Guyana called for the government to fire the Police Commissioner if he refuses to resign adding that by indulging in sexual relations with a person of such obvious vulnerability, Mr. Greene abused his position and his authority.
The woman at the center of rape allegation claimed she was raped, but the Commissioner has insisted that the sex was consensual. Following an investigation by local and Jamaican detectives, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommended that Mr Greene be charged with rape. However, the Commissioner has moved to the High Court to have the DPP’s decision quashed.
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