ID parade for West Kgn detainees today

SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine:

THERE IS to be an identification parade today at the Central Police Station, East Queen Street, Central Kingston, for 14 people who were picked up by the police in West Kingston and who are being detained at the Portmore Police Station, South St. Catherine.

This was disclosed during a closed-door sitting of the Spanish Town RM Court yesterday by Senior Supt. Granville Gause of the Area Four Police Headquar-ters, West Street, downtown Kingston.

SSP Gause had been summoned by Resident Magistrate Noreen Small, after the court was told that a subpoena for SSP Reneto Adams, head of the Crime Management Unit, to attend court and say why the 14 men were still being detained, had not been served.

Inspector Horace Salmon, a custody officer at the Portmore Police Station, told the court that the men were detained on July 10, and were kept at the station. He said an identification parade for the detainees was scheduled for today.

RM Small then ordered that the case be adjourned for SSP Gause to give the court the information.

He is to return to court next week Wednesday to give a status report on the men.

Several relatives and friends of the detainees turned up at the courthouse yesterday to seek information about them.

Gwendolyn Spence, mother of one of the detainees, told The Gleaner she had been having sleepless nights since her 17-year-old son was detained.

With hands on her head, she said, "Lord, I can't even tell you how I feel. I've been walking up and down until now to get information about my son," adding that she was frustrated and just wanted her son home.

A boy, 15, is also among the 14 who have been detained.

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