Internal charges for Michelle Brown after murder acquittal

By Aaron Humes: Police Constable Michelle Brown is out of prison after being acquitted last Friday of the December 2017 murder of Fareed Ahmad.

Supreme Court Justice Collin Williams found reasonable doubt in the Crown’s case against Brown, primarily because there was no satisfactory link between the alleged murder weapon found in Ahmad’s vehicle and the firearm a colleague said he had issued to her for her tour of duty that day and which she supposedly never returned. Also, the forensic evidence that would have linked the weapon to the murder was not produced at trial. In all, the judge was not satisfied that the prosecution proved that Brown shot Ahmad and that she did so with an intent to kill.

And while Brown had nothing to prove, the judge made a point of saying he did not believe her story that a third person entered the vehicle and shot Ahmad, having first told her at gunpoint not to intervene.

But Brown’s troubles are not over according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The top boss says internal disciplinary investigation will be opened on her in terms of an “act of prejudice toward good order and discipline” in connection with the weapon.

The failure to return the weapon in question, alleges Williams, is neglect of her duties. Brown remains on interdiction from the Department.

And the Commissioner, who was an investigator in the case, said Brown had failed to establish in her questioning at the time that there was a third person in the vehicle as she alleged. Two eyewitnesses to the subsequent crash of Ahmad’s vehicle failed to see anyone leaving the vehicle after the crash other than Ahmad and Brown, and that before they were removed the doors had been locked.

None of the police’s “intensive” investigations at the time supported a “third person” as asserted by Brown, much less that this person was the cop’s name called at the trial who has since denied involvement.

In the end, unless an appeal is mounted at the Court of Appeal, the case is closed with Brown’s acquittal.

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