It took the police more than two months to release video footage of the suspect in the Debra Blackman murder investigation but while some have criticised the delay, former police Commissioner Winston Felix says that the public ought not to be judgmental as these releases have to be timely.
“Probably the police were doing their own investigative work which did not bring them any results and as a result they found it necessary at this time to release it in full, out of fear that to have done it earlier may have jeopardised the work they were doing,” Felix told Stabroek News recently.
Prior to this release, police had released a still image of the suspect. The picture was released some two weeks after Blackman was shot dead during an
