Senior army, police officers aided in killing Walter Rodney -prisoner testifies

Robert Allan Gates

Former policeman and current prisoner Robert Allan Gates yesterday said he believes senior members of the army and police aided and abetted serviceman Gregory Smith in killing Dr Walter Rodney.

Gates, who also maintained that a police death squad killed between 25 and 30 persons on the instruction of a senior member of the force, yesterday concluded his testimony to Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI).

For three days, he has given evidence before to commission, which has been set up to among other things inquire into the