Although the six policemen implicated in the controversial killing of four persons at Kraal, Clarendon, were acquitted in December 2005, two of their colleagues are to re-appear in the Corporate Area Criminal Court today on allegations that they planted evidence at the crime scene.

Detective Sergeant Dennis Ballin and Detective Corporal Terrence Tingling, are facing charges of accessory after the fact to murder and accessory during the acts, tending and intending to pervert the course of justice in relation to the shooting of the four on May 7, 2003.

The victims were later identified as Angela Richards, Kirk Gordon, Lowena Thompson and Matthew James. They were controversially killed by members of the now disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU).

Both policemen were arrested and charged in July 2005, following investigations conducted by Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Granville Gause of the Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI), under the guidance of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kent Pantry.

Offered bail

When they appeared in court on July 21, they were offered bail in the sum of $500,000 with surety.

Reports are that the relevant authorities are in possession of telephone records, eyewitnesses and more records of communication to support the charges against the lawmen. The court is trying to establish whether the illegal gun which the police claimed they seized at Kraal, was planted at the scene.