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December 4, 2005
Trinidad: Bomb Suspect Proclaims His Innocence
We reported earlier on the case of 68-year old Lenville Small, who was suspected of being involved with four bombs which happened between July and September on Trinidad, in and around Port of Spain, the capital.
Lenvile Small was released on 1 December after being held in police custody since his arrest on Saturday November 19th. Suspicion fell on Small in part because his brother was a member of the Jamaat al Muslimeen group, whose leader Yasin Abu Bakr is currently remanded in custody awaiting trial on charges of sedition, incitement and terrorism.
70 year old Lancelot Small is currently in Florida, serving a sentence of twelve year's jail, imposed this August for gun-trafficking. He was found guilty of conspiring to import into Trinidad and Tobago sixty AK-47 assault rifles, and ten Mac-10 machine guns with silencers. Lancelot Small had been involved with the coup of 1990, when Yasin Abu Bakr attempted to overthrow the government. 20 people died as a result of the insurrection.
Lenville Small had in his residence a list of figures who had been involved in the trial of his elder brother, who was also named Olive Enyahooma-El, with varying figures of money written next to each name. Small denied that the item was a hit-list. He claimed that in a moment of "idleness", he had decided to work out how much each person had been paid while they had been involved in his brother's case.
Small was in a police jail for thirteen days, and was released without charge. Judge Mark Mohammed had three times invoked the nation's Anti-Terrorism Act, which was brought in following the events of September 11, 2001.
"That legislation (the Anti-Terrorism Act) gives the police the right to torture a prisoner for them to give in to their demands. But as long as I have life in my body I will challenge that piece of legislation. It is not about the money but the fact that it could happen to other people," he said.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 4, 2005 11:19 PM
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