President Irfaan Ali was yesterday written to by Dion Bascom’s lawyer requesting protection for him under the Protected Disclosures Act and calling for an independent investigation of the murder of Ricardo Fagundes on March 21st last year.
The stalled Fagundes murder probe triggered allegations on Thursday by Sergeant Bascom, a detective, of a police cover-up. This in turn has sparked lawyer’s letters to Bascom on behalf of Mohamed’s Enterprise and Deputy Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit, Mitchell Caesar.
Bascom is however standing his ground and yesterday his lawyer Nigel Hughes wrote President Ali laying out their case and seeking his intervention in the matter. Hughes told the President that Bascom is prepared to testify under oath and he fears that his client’s life is in grave danger.
