Death of Shaun McLeod — Officer to go on ID parade

ONE OF the four policemen currently under investigation in connection with the death of 23-year-old Shaun McLeod, who died while in police custody two weeks ago, was scheduled to be placed on an identification parade at the Marabella Police Station yesterday afternoon. According to an autopsy, McLeod died from blunt force trauma to the head. He had been arrested by police for using obscene language at Library Corner, San Fernando. McLeod, reports revealed, collapsed while in police custody and was already dead when he arrived at the San Fernando General Hospital in the police vehicle.

The police fingered in McLeod’s strange death, have claimed that he collapsed while at the station. Relatives said when they went to the mortuary they saw a tag on his toe which listed preliminary cause of death as a drug overdose. Senior officers of the San Fernando Homicide Bureau have since been detailed by Acting Commissioner of Police Everald Snaggs to conduct a full scale investigation into the incident. The Ag CoP received the file last week but returned it to the Homicide Bureau to be completed. The updated file is yet to be returned to the Acting Commissioner.