Donald Rodney revisits scene of bomb blast that killed brother

Donald Rodney (second from left) stands in front of the White Castle Fish shop, the exact location where his car was parked on the night of the explosion.

Maintaining that the record of his testimony during his magistrate’s court trial for possession of explosives was flawed, Donald Rodney yesterday showed investigators the scene of the explosion which killed his brother Dr Walter Rodney on June 13, 1980.

Rodney, the lone witness to the fatal explosion, stated that he never gave any information during his unsworn statement about the direction he travelled with his brother while they tested the walkie-talkie device that contained the explosive.

He was at the time continuing his testimony before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of his brother, where the disputed transcript of his