Costly cops
published: Sunday | July 9, 2006

Phyllis Thomas, Enterprise Editor

IT WAS 2 a.m. and Nicola Webb had surrendered to sleep in the back of a taxi. She and her co-workers had chartered the vehicle to take them home, after working throughout the night as exotic dancers in a Kingston nightclub.

She didn't make it home that night.

Instead, Webb spent the next three months in hospital after the bullet from a policeman's gun found its way to her spine. Reports are that the police had ordered the taxi driver to stop as he travelled along Waterloo Road in St. Andrew. He disobeyed and the police opened fire. Now paralysed from the waist down, Webb spends most of her time in a wheelchair.

* See full story in News 3.