Georgetown: Embattled Police Commissioner, Henry Greene, may have lost any possible support from the Government following the publication of an affidavit which saw him admitting to having sex with a 34-year-old woman who accused him of rape last year. This development was hinted by Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon during his weekly press briefing today.
Greene's issuance of court documents came in wake of reports that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) had recommended that the Top Cop be charged for rape and tried in the court of law. The decision Caribbean Trakker understands was based on the findings of the Jamaica-based team of detectives who had earlier this year interviewed both the woman and the Commissioner. In a recent disclosure Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, had disclosed that the Top Cop’s job depended heavily on the recommendation of the DPP.
In recognition of the fact that he could be charged, Greene in an attempt to ward off being charged moved to the court yesterday to halt moves by the Police Force from charging him. Dr. Luncheon disclosed today that “with regard to the issue of his admission in the court to this consensual sex relationship with the complainant it is indeed a matter of concern.”
In December last year, the 34-year-old mother of two claimed that she was forced into a city hotel and raped by Greene.
She said they first met on November 15, 2011, when she went to meet the Top Cop to enquire about the status of an investigation regarding her. She said that in the process of the investigations, the Police had taken possession of her mobile phone and she wanted to recover the phone. The woman claimed that Greene told her to meet him on November 22 to uplift the phone and afterwards he offered her a ride home. However, she said she was driven to a city hotel where the Commissioner pulled out a gun and waved it at her, causing her to be afraid. At this point, she said she reluctantly exited the vehicle after Greene made a strange demand.
However Greene in a subsequent statement to investigators said that when the woman came to meet him at Police Headquarters on November 22 last and it was upon her insistence that they meet “socially” that they ended up at a villa and had sex.
The Top Cop claimed too that he did not have a gun in his possession at the time. “A close examination of the statement first given to the police will certainly reveal that the sexual encounter with me and the complaint was consensual and will negative the key contested issues of probable compulsion and lack of consent,” Greene said in court documents he filed to have the High Court quash the recommendation for him to be charged.
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