Run Patrick, run

PATRICK YOUNG spent 90 minutes yesterday giving evidence at the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of 11-year-old Akiel Chambers. But his energies were not used up giving evidence in court. He used all he had by running almost a mile to escape from press photographers who were after him.

Young even ran into a food court on Edward Street; he dodged vehicles on the road, and he withstood the stares of the busy Port-of-Spain public, even calling the photographers “pap-arazzi” as he fled as far as Sacred Heart Girls’ RC School on Park Street. Young remained in the corridor of the courthouse for 15 minutes before he decided to leave. In his attempt to escape from the photographers, Young took off his tie and put on a pair of huge dark shades. He quietly slipped out of the visitors’ entrance of the Port-of-Spain Magi-strates’ Court on St Vincent Street with his wife. But when he was spotted, Young beat a hasty retreat and moved faster than Trinidadian sprinter Darrel Brown at the World Athletics Cham-pionship.

From the moment he spotted the photographers, Young ran north along St Vincent Street, west along Park Street and south along Richmond Street. The witness headed east along Duke Street and north on Edward Street. He ran into the food court at Uptown Mall before he spotted the photographers again. Young dashed south along Edward Street, east along Duke Street before he disappeared once again. By that time, the photographers captured pictures of the runaway witness. Newsday’s photographer Curtis Chase caught Young as he dashed through the streets of Port-of-Spain yesterday.