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THERE WERE many interesting developments this week at the trial of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and the other five policemen charged with the murder of four civilians at Kraal, Clarendon, on May 7, 2003.
Strong objections on Monday from defence lawyer Jacqueline Samuels-Brown prevented a United Kingdom consultant forensic scientist from telling the court of the experiment which he conducted on a rifle taken from the crime scene at Kraal, where four civilians were fatally shot just over two years ago.
Dr. Geoffrey Maxwell Roe from the University of Liverpool had cond... Read more
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GUATEMALA CITY: The boss of the police officers charged with killing three Central American Parliament members said Thursday the officers told him the legislators were carrying "something illegal" in their vehicle.
Victor Soto told The Associated Press that the four officers — who were killed in their jail cells before they could testify — came to his office to turn themselves in. "They said to me, 'Boss we did something stupid,'" Soto said.
After admitting they killed the Salvadoran officials, the police officers told Soto that they were told that the car had something illegal on board, without saying exactly what. Investigators did not find anything in the parliament officials' incinerated car.
Soto's statement suggested the Central American Parliament members might have had ties to organized crime, although Salvadoran officials and the men's families have denied such allegations.
The killings of the lawmakers and their suspected killers led to the resignation of one top police official and a proposed overhaul of Guatemala's police forces. Soto, the head of the national criminal investigation division, was removed from his post to guarantee the impartiality of investigations into the killings.
"It is not known if it was money or drugs or something else, but what they told me was that someone gave them information that something illegal was in the car of the legislators," said Soto, adding that the officers refused to give more details.
It is not yet clear if, according to the officers' account to Soto, they knew their victims were members of the Central American Parliament.
The four police officers included the head of the Guatemalan National Police's organized crime investigations unit.
Another officer turned himself in last week and is in custody, and a sixth officer is being sought in the killing on Feb. 19 of the three Salvadoran members of the Central American Parliament and their driver.
A satellite transponder in the officers' unmarked squad car put them at the scene of the crime.
One of the slain parliament members was Eduardo D'Aubuisson, son of El Salvador's late right-wing leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, which initially prompted speculation about political motives. But inquiries have focused primarily on organized crime.
Guatemala's Congress is holding hearings on the violence and plans next week to interview Interior Minister Carlos Vielman, National Police Chief Erwin Sperissen and prison system chief Victor Rosales.
The three submitted resignation letters, the standard procedure in any serious scandal.
But President Oscar Berger said his government was reviewing the letters but that in his opinion "they have done a job that has been more positive than negative."
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