Left: Gomes ... We believe in second chances. Right: Blair ... lyn-Sue in high spirits.

A call has been made for Carey Lyn-Sue, the former policeman whose sensational confession to fabricating evidence in a murder case earned him a six-month prison sentence, to be made a model in the fight against corruption.

Lyn-Sue was freed earlier this month after serving his sentence.

Yesterday, Dr Carolyn Gomes, executive director of human-rights group Jamaicans For Justice, said law enforcement can utilise Lyn-Sue to discourage delinquency among the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

"We believe in rehabilitation and second chances, and Mr Lyn-Sue is an excellent example," Gomes said.

Served seven years

Lyn-Sue was a member of the JCF for seven years. He was one of more than 50 cops arrested this year by the JCF's Anti-Corruption Unit for criminal conduct.

Commissioner of Corrections, Major Richard Reese, told The Gleaner yesterday that Lyn-Sue was freed from the South Camp Road penitentiary on September 4.

The 33-year-old Lyn-Sue was sentenced in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on May 5 for perverting the course of justice.

Five months earlier, the then constable confessed in the same court that, in April last year, he prepared and signed a statement incriminating Jason James of St James in the murder of Sheldon Shaw.

Shaw, also from St James, was killed in the parish on April 1. The murder charge against James was dropped.

Lyn-Sue said he decided to come clean after becoming a Christian. His courtroom confession was condemned in some quarters but applauded by members of the clergy, including Bishop Herro Blair of the Peace Management Initiative.

Blair, who pleaded for leniency for Lyn-Sue, said yesterday that he met with the former cop and members of his family last week at his Deliverance Evangelistic Church in St Andrew.

Return thanks

"He came to return thanks for our support, and we offered prayers for him and his family," Bishop Blair said.

He added that Lyn-Sue was in "high spirits".

The latest case of questionable police behaviour was reported yesterday when Constable Samuel Spence of the Stony Hill Police Station and a civilian were arrested and jailed on reasonable suspicion for breaching the Anti-Corruption Act.

A statement from the Consta-bulary Communication Network said Spence detected a breach of the Road Traffic Act by a public passenger vehicle along Old Stony Hill Road.

The vehicle was seized by Spence and Peart, a wrecker driver. Spence allegedly solicited $15,000 from the driver to release the vehicle.

The matter was reported to the Anti-Corruption Branch, which arrested Constable Spence and Peart, who had collected $13,000 from the complainant.

Spence is being held at the Kingston Central Police Station and Peart at the Half-Way Tree Police Station.