Earlier in the news, we gave you the highlites of the manslaughter trial currently ongoing in Dangriga's Supreme court.
Well, we caught up with Laddie Gillett's foster dad Emil Bradley in the moments after he exited the court this evening.
Bradley expressed his extreme displeasure saying that not only are the officers who accompanied Kareem Martinez incompetent at their jobs, but according to him they also spent the afternoon making misrepresentations on the stand.
Here's more.
Emil Bradley, Laddie's Foster Dad
"I mean it just make me realize why the conviction rate is so low, how they weren't prepared for this case. I can't understand how these 2 police officers who testified earlier - like it's a dog that has been shot. Even a dog, you love your dog, you will look after your dog. You would try do something. I mean they just watch, didn't make any effort to say let us do a CPR or check his pulse or see anything like that."
"I am not happy with these 2 police officers and this is what we are talking about when we say we need more training for police officers. When Mr. Williams listened to these testimonies that these officers give, I know he will be ashamed of them and ask himself are they worthy of being a police officer, a special constable, a tourism police - whatever it is? Come on, we have to do better than this. It's not only this we have, we have a bigger problem that what we are actually seeing. It's not only the case with Laddie, but we have a bigger problem in our department and this is the reason why our conviction rate is so low, because we fail to prepare."
"We just await to see how this goes. All I will say I am not happy with the lies that they tell. Like they have no regards for a life that was lost. If it was their parents or their brother or sister, would have they done the same thing or would have they told the truth. That's all I have to say."
