Anguilla’s Commissioner of Police, Rudolph Proctor, told reporters on Wednesday that he was confident that his investigating team would successfully solve the two murders that rocked the island on December 17 at Blue Diamond in The Farrington.
“We can’t say that we are not confident,” he said. “Based on the information we have – whether we have a downright case with the evidence that is out there or we have a circumstantial case to build – we will be going forward with the case.” “We always put 99 to 100 per cent in making sure that a case is strong enough – circumstantial or otherwise – to present in court and that’s where we are going.
“From what we have seen, and from what the investigators have found, there is additional information that can help us further, and we are appealing to those persons with that information to come forward with it.
“This isn’t just for the Blue Diamond case. Anguilla experienced five murders in 2012. To this date, as far as those murders are concerned, the police would have arrested and charged people in four of the cases, including the two murders at Blue Diamond and two others. There wasthe one that happened at the Jeremiah Gumbs Highway in full view of persons. We are confident that if one of those persons who witnessed that murder were to come forward and provide us with that information, we would make an arrest in relation to that matter and the five murder cases would be cleared up.
“But for some unknown reason, those persons, the large percentage being young people, are withholding information as far as that crime is concerned.”
