St Lucia police faked encounters to mask 12 extra-judicial killings, planted weapons

Moses Charles

A report by the Jamaican Constabulary Force into 12 killings by the St Lucia police between 2008 and 2010 found that all of them were fake encounters to facilitate executions, weapons were planted by cops and death lists were circulated in the force during the period.

The damning revelations were made last night in an address to the nation by St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony. Following the police killings under his predecessor and the questions that had been raised about them, the United States imposed a series of punitive measures on St Lucia including the curtailing of training and it also pulled visas for some of those thought to be at the centre of the killings.

In a bid to end the stand-off with Washington, on August 30, 2014, Castries secured the services of a team of investigators from the