Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Charges have not yet been laid against Sel­wyn "Robo­cop" Alex­is who has been in cus­tody since his ar­rest last Tues­day at One Wood­brook Place, Wood­brook. Po­lice sources told the T&T Guardian a file has been sub­mit­ted to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard to de­ter­mine whether charges will be laid against Alex­is. Up to late yes­ter­day the DPP had not giv­en in­struc­tions. Alex­is, 45, was ar­rest­ed when mem­bers of the Crim­i­nal In­tel­li­gence Unit (CIU) raid­ed his apart­ment and seized a lap­top. A Nis­san Almera car and a Hilux were al­so seized dur­ing the raid.

Alex­is's at­tor­ney Joseph Hon­ore had sig­nalled his in­ten­tion to ap­proach the Re­view Tri­bunal, head­ed by Se­nior coun­sel Gilbert Pe­ter­son, set up to hear de­ten­tion mat­ters and com­plaints dur­ing the state of emer­gency. When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day for com­ment on his next move Hon­ore in­di­cat­ed that he could not speak since he was in a meet­ing. Last week Crime Sup­pres­sion Unit of­fi­cers searched the Gas­par­il­lo hold­ing cell where Alex­is was be­ing kept and found a Nokia phone and cash. Sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers were re­port­ed­ly served with no­tices of dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion af­ter a re­port was sub­mit­ted to se­nior South­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent.