Maintaining his brother’s innocence, Donald Rodney yesterday rejected notions that Dr Walter Rodney knew that the device which caused the explosion that claimed his life in 1980 was not a walkie-talkie.
Continuing his evidence at the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Rodney’s death, Donald Rodney stated that his brother could not have been aware that the package handed to him by Gregory Smith was a bomb. He made this declaration under cross-examination by attorney Basil Williams, who is representing the interest of the PNC—the political party long accused of orchestrating the fatal bomb blast.
Williams contended that the reason Donald Rodney did not examine the bag handed to him by Smith on the night of on
