Dear Editor,
During the protests of the People’s Parliament myself, my friend Freddie Kissoon and others were discussing two mysterious seawall killings in a short period. They had registered to me that I knew both of the victims, although I had no idea, and only learnt then, that they were what we call AC/DC. We dabbled with ‘What if ’? which included what if someone was seeking males with a certain hidden sexual profile?
This would mean that he or she had to be close to that community to not take things at face value. However, it was all speculation and we left it there, until the untimely passing of our brother Troy Kellman. At his wake, when discussing a recent suicide, the layman’s topic of the possible inner conflict of people who are gay was in the discourse. There the
seawall killings came up, and we began a ‘sketch’ of words based on ‘what if’ speculations. We are not experts on behaviour, and except for a half-read journal article here and there neither Freddie nor I know. Then references to the ‘wake’ gaff appeared in Freddie’s article on Friday, October 30.
People who made some phone calls to me wanted to see the sketch. But how could there be a sketch if there were no eyewitnesses, and these bodies were found hours later? ‒ again, in all reality how could there be a sketch? If the police are looking at this cold case we would not know; their findings would only become public when an arrest is made. I do hope that I’ve disposed of the conspiracy theory of the hoax ‘murderer’s sketch’.
Yours faithfully,
Barrington Braithwaite
