And while he hasn't seen that evidence - surely the AG would have heard the DPP's assessment of the police file that it had "less than nothing."
And now we know that the file also contains false statements.
So, just as everyone guessed three months ago - how can police be appointed to investigate police?
We asked the attorney general today why he was unable to recommend that an independent investigation be conducted on the matter.
Like the PM, he stressed our laws do not permit us to do so, in comparison to other Caribbean countries.
Anthony Sylvester, Attorney General
"So one of the things At times, even as lawyers, we may have to do further research to appreciate the nuances of a particular area and so what I came to appreciate is this. The only entity which has the lawful authority to conduct an investigation is a police department. So in conducting a police investigation you would ordinarily have to detain somebody. You may question somebody, but if you were to just appoint someone, if I were to appoint Codie and then Codie goes to you Marisol, or you Ms Lanza and say okay I want to see you at the police station. You can just suck your teeth and go about your business because he does not have the lawful authority. Now if a police officer was to do that you are obligated by law to actually attend and so that was the reason so there is nothing in law. The prime minister had explained and I take this opportunity to retírate it so we had discussed that it is a shortcoming in the law. So we have subsequently been engaging looking at laws in other jurisdictions and so the hope is that we will be taking back to cabinet a proposal for provisions for an independent investigator so to speak similar to what obtains in Jamaica so we are looking closely at the INDECOM legislation in Jamaica in that respect."
