The Editor, Sir:

I feel guilty of committing a crime against the poor people of this country. I had taken an oath that I would do what was necessary to stop the bad policemen from carrying out their acts of atrocity against the people of this beautiful land.

I attended a post-mortem examination at the Spanish Town Hospital in May and I have issued a certificate of death by gunshot wound - homicide. I took the opportunity to show the Government pathologist one very significant finding in those entrance wounds that were contact wounds. I noted that the cause of death was a contact entry wound to the left side of the face that transected the brain and exited through the right ear.

I write at this time because in the deliberations with the doctor, I, in the presence of detectives showed that an expert doctor could prove the placement of the gun on the skin by noting the muzzle burn and in a simple dissection [which I did] that substances which exit the gun along with the bullet may, as in this instance, be deposited within the wound. I had the police photographer take pictures of this pathological fact that in a court of law would prove murder.

It is instructive that when policemen were accused Tuesday night of killing a man on Olympic Way, the women were able to describe that a pillow was placed between the gun and the man. In short, I have shown bad policemen how to kill without leaving forensic evidence. The question is, how then were these policemen able to teach this lesson unless the police killings have become systematic and organised? There are grave portends in this fact.

The challenge for Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields is then to protect the citizens from murderous policemen while promoting the good. In the meantime, we will see if the post-mortem examination for the latest killing will not show other pathological evidence of murder, only this time, I will not show the assembled policemen.

Finally, wither the Bureau of Special Investigation? We must have faith in them to take the lead in acting against criminality in the police force.

I am, etc.,

JEPHTHAH FORD

jephthahford@hotmail.com

Vanford Medical Centre

1 Pennant Terrace

Kingston 19