Cops call in TV men for questioning
POLICE have invited three hosts of local television programmes for questioning in connection with an ongoing investigation, a senior official confirmed yesterday. The men, Mr Clem David, Mr Roger Moore and Mr Ronald Waddell have been asked to report to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) tomorrow morning, the Police official said. The spokesman said Police have told the three to report to CID headquarters in Georgetown in relation to "a matter under investigation". They were not given details on the matter under investigation, he said, but Moore in a statement yesterday linked it to a cellular telephone found at the apartment house in which wanted bandit Linden `Blackie' London was shot dead in a joint Police-Army operation on February 9. Moore said their "telephone numbers came up in the directory of slain wanted man Blackie's cellular phone." "The police are interested in what Blackie may have told them", Moore claimed in the statement. The Police spokesman yesterday declined to say what the three men would be questioned about. The Chronicle understands that Police have been running checks on a cellular phone found after London was killed in the shootout. A senior Police official has confirmed they have a cellular phone found at the scene of London's death and are "looking into it". The official said Police did not have an address book belonging to London which another newspaper said was also found at the scene. Police are following leads on other members of London's gangs and are trying to trace the sources of the heavy weapons and ammunition he had accumulated and stashed away in the apartment building. Post mortem reports showed that London, a former Special Forces member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the young woman killed with him in the apartment building died from haemorrhage and shock from multiple gunshot wounds. London, 38, died when he was shot after an almost 12-hour confrontation with a joint Police-Army contingent at the Toucan guest house, Eccles, East Bank Demerara. He had been wanted dead or alive by the Police for some 14 robberies and at least two murders and was on the run since 1989. In the confrontation with the Police and Army, he shot GDF Special Forces member Lance Corporal Lennox Harvey in the head and wounded another soldier and a Policeman. Harvey's left eye was removed in surgery and he would be unable to return to the military because of the permanent disability, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon reported Friday. Police said London was hiding out at the guest house prior to a "big event" he had been planning for last weekend and had a heavy arsenal of big guns and grenades in his hideout. He was brought down in a hail of gunfire as he emerged from the building which the Joint Services set on fire to flush him out. Police found shotguns, a sub-machine gun, an AK-47 rifle, hundreds of rounds of live and spent ammunition, a 9MM pistol, a .22 revolver, a bullet proof vest and military uniforms among other items London had in the building. London was buried Wednesday. Luncheon said all investigations into the standoff with London will be done by the Joint Services agencies that were involved. Dismissing suggestions that an independent body be set up to examine the events of February 9 when the bandit was shot dead in an Army-Police operation, he said: "I don't subscribe to that". Luncheon told reporters Friday that the Police and the Army are doing their investigations of a technical nature which are being used to identify and resolve outstanding issues, and as results are obtained, that information would be made available to the Guyanese public. "I've seen already some indication as to the use of some of these weapons found at the site and I'm certain that if regional and international efforts are deemed necessary, that would be procured to identify the source of the weapons and the other paraphernalia uncovered at the scene of the incident," he said.
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