Bridgetown.
Police Constable Everton Gittens told the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) this morning that he had a hunch that Shanique Myrie could be a drug courier when she arrived in Barbados on March 14, 2011.
Gitten who was stationed at Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) said he later dispelled that notion after interviewing the 25 year old Jamaican woman, and instead thought she was coming here to work.
The lawman who was the senior Drugs Squad officer on duty when Myrie arrived, made the revelation while continuing his testimony in Myrie's discrimination case against the Barbados Government.
He told the court that Myrie was not searched in a bathroom facility at the airport that day, but that her luggage was searched by customs officials and no drugs were found.
Gitten denied that he or his police colleague on duty at the GAIA that day ever threatened Myrie during the course of their brief interview with her in an upstairs office at the airport.
Under cross examination by Myrie's lawyer Nancy Anderson, the policeman said he got the original hunch after becoming suspicious of Myrie's antics when she first entered the airport's arrival hall.
Gittens said his second hunch came after Myrie give him receiving information from her about whom she would be staying with during her visit to Barbados.
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