Man dies in police car

Police investigations are now being conducted into an incident where a man collapsed in a police vehicle and later died. According to police reports, Sean McLeod, 23, was arrested around 9 pm Friday on Coffee Street by police officers of the San Fernando CID who were patrolling the area at the time. McLeod, of St John’s Village, South Oropouche, was said to be using obscene language. Reports stated that the police officers attempted  to  put the man into the police vehicle but he resisted and started behaving violently.

When he was eventually placed into the vehicle and being transported to the police station reports stated he continued to behave in a violent manner. According to reports as the vehicle approached Library Corner, San Fernando McLeod collapsed in the police car. He was immediately taken to the Accident and Emergency Department of the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) but was pronounced dead on arrival. Senior police officers  who  viewed the body at the mortuary claimed that no marks of violence were  found on the body of the deceased.