Camille Clarke

Sea Lots res­i­dents say the po­lice have not in­ter­viewed any wit­ness­es to the ac­ci­dent which claimed the lives of Haydee Paul and her two daugh­ters in Sea Lots on Feb­ru­ary 24.In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day morn­ing on i95.5 ra­dio, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Stephen Williams said 15 peo­ple from Sea Lots had been in­ter­viewed and eight state­ments were record­ed from res­i­dents, in­clud­ing one per­son who was at the cross­ing.

Paul, 28, and her daugh­ters Ruthie, eight, and Shaki­ra, sev­en, were knocked down by a car dri­ven by a po­lice of­fi­cer on the Beetham High­way near Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, where they lived.The three oth­er vic­tims of the crash were Aman­da Lal­la, Abi­gail Ass­ing and Ryan Ram­per­sad, al­so of Pi­o­neer Dri­ve.How­ev­er, Lal­la's son-in-law, Mar­vin John­son, said: "No one came and in­ter­viewed her. She has a bro­ken foot. She is still bedrid­den and no gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives came ei­ther. She is com­ing along, and talk­ing."

Ram­per­sad is still in a co­ma at hos­pi­tal af­ter suf­fer­ing in­juries to the head.Spokesman for the Sea Lots com­mu­ni­ty Ken­roy Dop­well said the po­lice did not in­ter­view res­i­dents:"We are cer­tain about that, and it has four wit­ness­es that ac­tu­al­ly saw when the car hit the peo­ple.

"He (Williams) can't stand and say that to our face. He prob­a­bly in­ter­viewed about 15 po­lice of­fi­cers. I am cer­tain they nev­er in­ter­viewed no­body. We sent one of the wit­ness­es to Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion and we know the three oth­er fe­male wit­ness­es. One is in a mess right now."

Dop­well said one of the wit­ness­es was trau­ma­tised af­ter the ac­ci­dent."She was to cross and some­thing tell she hold back," he said. "We gave the po­lice the names and phones num­bers and they havent been con­tact­ed up to now," he said.When con­tact­ed, Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Mervyn Richard­son said the file would be dealt with by next week. He re­fused to com­ment fur­ther.