Cops seize station diary

POLICE have seized the station diary at the charge room of the Besson Street Police Station as part of the inquiry into the death of a man at the corner of Duke and Picadilly Streets in Port-of-Spain on Friday night. Two firearms belonging to two police officers of the station were also seized on Saturday. According to reports, around 9.40 pm Friday, two officers of the Besson Streets Police Station were at Nelson Street, Port-of-Spain, when they claimed they found the semi-nude body of a man with a bullet wound to the head.

However, an eyewitness to the shooting reported what he saw to a senior police officer. This prompted the seizure of the station diary and two guns belonging to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. The guns will be sent for special tests to be carried out by a ballistic expert at the Forensic Science Centre. Investigators will then submit their findings to head of the Port-of-Spain Division, Snr Supt Errol Denoon. Up until yesterday, the dead man was not identified. He was described as slim built, of African descent, five feet five inches tall, bearing a rasta hairstyle and dressed in short brown jeans and a pair of sandals.