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NIGEL HUGHES RESPONDS TO PPP MISCHIEF AND CHRONICLE
EDITORIAL OF SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2014

February 17, 2014

Dear friend,

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has issued several public statements
relating the issue of my relationship with the Foreman of the jury in the
Luisignan murder trial.

In these releases they have made particular appeal to the victims of the
Lusignan massacre contending that I have been responsible for the release and discharge of those persons who were responsible for the mass murders.

I had previously restrained myself from making any public statement on the
issue as the Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed the acquittals and
has made the issue of my prior representation of the foreman a central issue in the matter.

In normal circumstances and in countries which pay some regard to the issue of no public comment on matters which are sub judice, comment by those who hold offices of significant legal responsibility and the publication of their comments on matters which are sub judice, are avoided and frowned on.

However in Guyana that appears not to be the case.

I will merely make reference to matters which are already in the public
domain which seem to have been overlooked although I have raised them before.

The people of Luisignan and Guyana appear not to have been made aware that the person who admitted and confessed to being with Fineman and participating in the Luisignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek massacres, Mr Dwane Wiliams, was not and will not be prosecuted by the State for any of these 33 murders he participated in. He has been granted a free pass by the State for killing not only the people of Lusiganan but those in Bartica and Lindo Creek.

These are his chilling words made under oath during his testimony in the
Lusignan trial.

“ME AND FINE MAN WERE TIGHT. I WAS WITH HIM IN LUISIGNAN, BARTICA AND LINDO CREEK. LUSIGNAN 11 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, BARTICA 12 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND LINDO CREEK 10 PEOPLE WERE KILL 33 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN I WAS WITH FINE MAN AND I AM NOT FACING A SINGLE CHARGE.”

These words were recorded by the Trial Judge Mr. Justice Navindra Singh and are contained in the appeal record, a public document at pages 256 to 257. Copies of this extract from his testimony are attached.

He was the State’s sole eye witness who was jointly charged for the Lusiganan murders.

A mere week before the commencement of the Luisignan Trial Mr. Williams had the charges of murder against him mysteriously dropped by the State and he was released.

Perhaps the people of Lusignan may wish to inquire of the Attorney General and the DPP, why the State, which is responsible for protecting and serving them, would let a self confessed murderer of 33 citizens go free without a single charge. No other person in the history of this country has enjoyed such a pardon.

The foreman of the jury who I represented in a civil action which was concluded in 2008, was a member of the People’s Progressive Party and was represented by the current Attorney General in 2011 in an action in which I appeared against him (the Foreman).

The same foreman, as part of his party duties in 2012 participated in a public picketing exercise against me at the Supreme Court during the hearings of the Linden Commission of Inquiry. He was there along with senior members of the PPP. A copy of the photograph of the foreman on the PPP picket line is attached for your benefit.

At the time of the Luisignan Trial any relationship which existed between the
foreman and myself could best be described as hostile. There was nothing to
disclose.

Is the PPP saying that I should have disclosed that the Foreman was a PPP
member, that he had been represented by the Attorney General two years
immediately prior to the trial when I appeared against him in the same case?

Is this the non disclosure they are speaking about?

The hearing of the appeal by the DPP in the Lusignan Trial was fixed for
hearing last week in the Court of Appeal but was postponed as a result of
unrelated issues facing the Court.

The editorial in Chronicle, Saturday 15 February 2014 page makes several
libelous allegations against me. These will be dealt with by my legal advisors in due course.

Among the allegations made, is the contention that I received a huge payment from the families of the victims of the Linden shooting in 2012 as legal or other fees.

From the outset I made it clear to the people of Linden that my
services were given to them pro bono without any conditions.

Not a single cent was asked for or received from any victim by me or my firm.

I personally expended in excess of USD25,000.00 financing the professional
services, travel and accommodation of the pathologist Professor Hubert Daisley from Trinidad and the ballistic expert Dr. Mark Robinson from the UK.

The cost of travel for the family members of the deceased to travel to
Georgetown along with their overnight accommodation in Georgetown when they attended the post mortem examination were also donated by me.

This information is released purely for record keeping purposes in response to the claims in the editorial.

Yours faithfully,

C.A. NIGEL HUGHES

Attorney-at-Law

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Former Member

Now look how all the Corrupt PPP/C defenders gone into hiding

2/19/149:00 AM

Former Member

Gentlemen,

This about "he say she say". We will not get the truth here. Both sides have dirty hands. This is politics.

2/19/149:04 AM

Former Member

Home > TOP STORY > DPP debunks misleading comments reportedly made by Hughes

DPP debunks misleading comments reportedly made by Hughes

DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, yesterday, debunked comments made by Chairman of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes, in an article which was published in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the headline: ‘Hughes accuses DPP of letting mass murderer to go free – as part of deal for Lusignan trial testimony’.

DPP Shalimar Ali-Hack

Ali-Hack pointed out that Hughes’comments were made without any attempt to obtain her position on the matter.
She slammed the accusation that her office is looking at a plea-bargain deal with a man, who admitted to participating in the Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek massacres.
According to Mrs Ali-Hack, at no time did the DPP make any plea bargain deal with the witness Dwane Williams, who was the witness named in the article.
The article also said, “Perhaps the people of Lusignan may wish to inquire of the Attorney General (Anil Nandlall) and the DPP (Shalimar Ali-Hack), why the State, which is responsible for protecting and serving them, would let a self-confessed murderer of 33 citizens go free without a single charge. No other person in the history of this country has enjoyed such a pardon.”
Ali-Hack maintained that the witness Dwane Williams testified for the State, as is very evident from the article, which itself made contradictory statements.
The DPP noted that the article itself said, “A mere week before the commencement of the Lusignan trial Mr. Williams had the charges of murder against him mysteriously dropped by the State and he was released.”
She said, “This in itself states that Dwane Williams was charged which contradicted other aspects of the article which stated that Dwane Williams was allowed go free without a single charge.
“Based on the facts from the investigations, Dwane Williams was an accomplice. It is an old common law practice to allow an accomplice to an offence to testify for the prosecution. It has always been done in the criminal law practice, and continues to be done. It is a lawful practice with which all criminal law practitioners are quite familiar.”
The embattled AFC Chairman, himself, is facing legal troubles, following the court action moved by Mayfield French, the owner of popular city school Mae’s.
French, on January 17, 2014, sued Nigel Hughes, Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Registrar of the Supreme Court in respect of a property located at Lot 29 Subryanville, Kitty, Georgetown, upon which part of the school has been built.
In the court papers which were seen by this newspaper, French is contending that since February 24th 2006, she purchased the said property from Nigel Hughes for the sum of $20,000,000. She paid $8,000,000 as a deposit and went in possession; transport was supposed to be passed within 8 months and a mortgage on the said property was supposed to be paid off before the passing of the said transport.
In the meanwhile, this property was built up by French with buildings constructed on it as part of the school building complex.
According to French, she spent nearly $400 million on the said property. The portion which was bought from Hughes houses classrooms of Mae’s Secondary School, the canteen and the auditorium offices, washroom and other administrative and learning spaces. However, Hughes never passed transport to her.
Before the sale to French, Hughes had mortgaged the very property to Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Insurance Company. French claimed that it was only in December, 2013 that she first learnt that Hughes never paid off a loan, for which this said property was mortgaged as collateral and that Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Insurance obtained foreclosure proceedings against the property and Hughes since 20th March, 2012. Hughes’s indebtedness to the company stands at over $26 million. The property was levied upon in December, 2013, by the Marshal of the Supreme Court and purportedly sold at an auction.
According to French, Hughes never disclosed that he did not pay off the loan; that he was sued as a result, and that a foreclosure order was obtained against the property. French claimed as a result she now faces ruin.

2/19/149:05 AM

Mr.TI pity the fool

Show us copies of the court papers. Let us see the so called evidence.

2/19/149:09 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Show us copies of the court papers. Let us see the so called evidence.

You lived in Suriname and has no interest in Guyana. You care more about Suriname than you do about Guyana. All you care about is to criticise the PPP. You don't need to see the evidence. I go to Guyana twice a year.

2/19/149:13 AM

Mr.TI pity the fool

Originally Posted by skeldon_man:

Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Show us copies of the court papers. Let us see the so called evidence.

Bai it is none of your business where my interests are focused upon. My country is under attack by a bunch of thieving PPP crooks. It is my right and civic duty to rid our soil of the last bit if life left in these thieves. You are either with us or against us. You decide.

2/19/149:22 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Originally Posted by skeldon_man:

Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Show us copies of the court papers. Let us see the so called evidence.

Mr T, why tek on these fools. Continue position the good stuff.

2/19/1411:14 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by KishanB:

Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Originally Posted by skeldon_man:

Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Show us copies of the court papers. Let us see the so called evidence.

Mr T, why tek on these fools. Continue position the good stuff.

Kishan is ducking and hiding on the Nigel Gate Affair.

You can run but you cannot hide.

In fact, the executives of the AFC are AFRAID to bell the cat while the AFC party is now seen as Corrupt at it's very CORE.

Burhnam born back in the AFC.

2/19/1411:18 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by skeldon_man:

Gentlemen,

This about "he say she say". We will not get the truth here. Both sides have dirty hands. This is politics.

how much more truth you need the man admit in the high court that he commit the crime killing 33 people

2/19/1411:35 AM

MitwahSenior Member

The people of Luisignan and Guyana appear not to have been made aware that the person who admitted and confessed to being with Fineman and participating in the Luisignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek massacres, Mr Dwane Wiliams, was not and will not be prosecuted by the State for any of these 33 murders he participated in. He has been granted a free pass by the State for killing not only the people of Lusiganan but those in Bartica and Lindo Creek.

These are his chilling words made under oath during his testimony in the
Lusignan trial.

“ME AND FINE MAN WERE TIGHT. I WAS WITH HIM IN LUISIGNAN, BARTICA AND LINDO CREEK. LUSIGNAN 11 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, BARTICA 12 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND LINDO CREEK 10 PEOPLE WERE KILL 33 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN I WAS WITH FINE MAN AND I AM NOT FACING A SINGLE CHARGE.”

These words were recorded by the Trial Judge Mr. Justice Navindra Singh and are contained in the appeal record, a public document at pages 256 to 257. Copies of this extract from his testimony are attached.

He was the State’s sole eye witness who was jointly charged for the Lusiganan murders.

A mere week before the commencement of the Luisignan Trial Mr. Williams had the charges of murder against him mysteriously dropped by the State and he was released.

Perhaps the people of Lusignan may wish to inquire of the Attorney General and the DPP, why the State, which is responsible for protecting and serving them, would let a self confessed murderer of 33 citizens go free without a single charge. No other person in the history of this country has enjoyed such a pardon.

2/19/143:29 PM

Former Member

Originally Posted by Mitwah:

The people of Luisignan and Guyana appear not to have been made aware that the person who admitted and confessed to being with Fineman and participating in the Luisignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek massacres, Mr Dwane Wiliams, was not and will not be prosecuted by the State for any of these 33 murders he participated in. He has been granted a free pass by the State for killing not only the people of Lusiganan but those in Bartica and Lindo Creek.

These are his chilling words made under oath during his testimony in the
Lusignan trial.

“ME AND FINE MAN WERE TIGHT. I WAS WITH HIM IN LUISIGNAN, BARTICA AND LINDO CREEK. LUSIGNAN 11 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, BARTICA 12 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND LINDO CREEK 10 PEOPLE WERE KILL 33 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN I WAS WITH FINE MAN AND I AM NOT FACING A SINGLE CHARGE.”

These words were recorded by the Trial Judge Mr. Justice Navindra Singh and are contained in the appeal record, a public document at pages 256 to 257. Copies of this extract from his testimony are attached.

He was the State’s sole eye witness who was jointly charged for the Lusiganan murders.

A mere week before the commencement of the Luisignan Trial Mr. Williams had the charges of murder against him mysteriously dropped by the State and he was released.

Perhaps the people of Lusignan may wish to inquire of the Attorney General and the DPP, why the State, which is responsible for protecting and serving them, would let a self confessed murderer of 33 citizens go free without a single charge. No other person in the history of this country has enjoyed such a pardon.

try no other person in the history of the world

2/19/144:16 PM

Former Member

Originally Posted by warrior:

Originally Posted by skeldon_man:

Gentlemen,

This about "he say she say". We will not get the truth here. Both sides have dirty hands. This is politics.

how much more truth you need the man admit in the high court that he commit the crime killing 33 people

I bet you still spell cow "cow .. e i e i o"

2/20/147:06 AM

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