Top Cop gets court order to block rape charge -challenges DPP’s advice

-says in affidavit that sex was consensual

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Police Commissioner Henry Greene’s lawyers yesterday secured a High Court order temporarily barring the Guyana Police Force from instituting a rape charge against him, after almost two months of investigations.

“I anticipated he would try any means available to stop the inevitable but we are prepared to wait on the court’s decision,” Nigel Hughes, the attorney for the woman who made the complaint against Greene, said in a reaction to the latest move.

A legal source later said that such a …..


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