The police say that at no time was any statement taken from Mayor Hamilton Green during his questioning last Saturday when he visited Police Headquarters, Eve Leary. Green was invited by a senior officer on Thursday to confirm some comments made by now charged ex-GDF officer Oliver Hinckson during a press conference which Green hosted at City Hall to deal with matters of the council.
However Green told the media that he had refused the invitation based on advice from his attorney. Green later went to police headquarters on Saturday.
Police in a statement earlier this week said Green had subsequently informed them that he was willing to come in.
According to the police, upon his arrival at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Green made it clear that he would not give any written statement to the police.
He was interviewed and gave information about Hinckson’s presence at City Hall on the day of the press conference but declined to comment on the content of the statements Hinckson made before the cameras at the press conference, the police statement said.
It further noted that during the questioning written notes were made by the interviewing rank which the mayor indicated he would not sign, but at no time was he asked by the interviewing rank to do so.
The police said a recap of the written notes was done by the rank, after which Green left.
Green had called “sinister”, sentences he alleged were inserted into a statement which he said he gave police on Saturday during investigations into utterances made by Hinckson at a mayoral press conference.
He had said that he refused to sign the statement read back to him after the suspicious insertions, noting that he was afraid some mischief might be afoot.
Following Hinckson’s utterances he has been charged with advocating terrorism and uttering seditious statements and was remanded.
His case continues today at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
