A Coroner’s Inquest is expected to start Tuesday in London to determine the cause of death of Andrew Frederick who died in January in Grenada.
A family spokesman told THE NEW TODAY that this approach was necessary in light of their concerns over the manner in which the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) conducted their investigation into the death.
“We are going to have our own Inquest in London because here (Grenada) they don’t know what they are doing – it’s all a big cover-up,” said a source close to the family.
Frederick’s body was exhumed about three weeks ago and flown back to England by family members who were dissatisfied with the police probe into the discovery of the body at an upscale home in the well-to-do Lance Aux Epines area in the south of the island.
According to the source, a key aspect of the Inquest will be the report to be given to the British Coroner by Scotland Yard which did an autopsy on the remains after it was brought to London.
He also said that respected Trinidad & Tobago Pathologist Professor Hubert Daisley is expected to be one of the key witnesses to be called by the British Coroner to give evidence at the Inquiry.
Daisley concluded after his autopsy that Frederick’s death should be treated as a murder.
However, RGPF took the position that it was “a suspicious” case.
It is not clear whether any of the RGPF Police Investigators will be involved in the independent British Inquest into the death of Frederick.
The Family has reportedly retained a King’s Counsel in England to represent their interest at the Inquest.
The official said the Frederick family believes that the local Police hierarchy have not been co-operative in the investigation including a reluctance to give approval for British Scotland Yard to send detectives to Grenada to do their own independent investigation into the death of Frederick.
He identified a specific member of the Police High Command who was always engaged in “ducking and diving” on the issue of bringing in British police on the island to help investigate the death.
The family also claimed that they did not even know who did the autopsy on Andrew’s body for the Grenada Police.
“I don’t know. We weren’t notified of anything by the Police – not a thing. Up to today we haven’t been notified about anything by the Police. Everything is hush, hush with the Police,” he quoted a key family member as saying.
A respected ex-police officer with some experience in Forensic and who worked alongside Professor Daisley in the case, was quoted as saying: “I know he (Frederick) was tortured – he was beaten and left to die on the ground.”
The former Police High Command member who visited the crime scene indicated that he saw signs of where the intruders broke the doors of some rooms in the house to gain entry.