POLICE are investigating the death of the man they honoured last year as their oldest surviving gazetted officer - William Frederick Phillips.
They found the former assistant commissioner Phillips dead in his St Leonard’s Avenue, Westbury Road, St Michael home early yesterday morning.
Friends said the 95-year-old retired cop and former senior Coast Guard officer, who lived alone in the two-storey wall house close to St Leonard’s Anglican Church, was discovered under a bed, with his hands and feet bound.
It is terrible that an elderly gentleman would be “discovered under a bed, with his hands and feet bound”. I suspect that he was murdered.
Over on today’s Advocate, the current Commissioner, Darwin Dottin, is boasting that reported crime is down by 2%. I hope that crime is actually down. An alternative explanation is that people have little confidence in the crime-solving abilities of the Royal Barbados Police Force, and are reporting fewer crimes.
Under any circumstances, it is most regrettable when an officer or former officer of the law becomes a crime victim. I extend my condolences to Mr. Phillips’ family.
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Don’t fool your self he was no sweet bread.
he either know about or participated in the death and disappearence of mark Stokes in early 1970’s.
It is believe that he transported Mark Stokes body on George Fergussion’s boat and dumped it out to sea.
He did this at the request of Errol Barrow who was acting on the behalf Chief Justice Douglas who was being blackmailed by Mark Stokes.
There is a Bajan woman who wrote a book on this, I don’t recall her name right now.
1234,
Angela Cole wrote about this.
Book: Boys in the Band > Chapter:Disappearance of Mark Stokes>”Murder will out”. (The link is below.) I don’t recall hearing that Mr. Phillips was involved in the alleged foul play in Stokes’ disappearance.
In your opinion, does Ms. Cole’s book accurately describe what happened? Can this book be dismissed as mischievous gossip, or is it consistent with the facts?
The Royal Barbados Police Force did not bring charges, so anyone who trusts the integrity and crime-solving abilities of the force would think the book is just gossip.
My mind is open on this one.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Td6DUh7Q_VYC&dq=%22Mark+Stokes%22+George+Fergusson+%22Errol+Barrow%22+Barbados&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=vb4Nohcf5G&sig=qHfNTuQChK1VFlgKP-sKhDTwFpw&hl=en&ei=b90LS5jOJ43dnAej3tTTAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Stokes&f=false
He and my father were friends. My dad told me about that.
To be quite honest I thought that he was dead years ago.
1234,
Very interesting!
Not long ago Barbados’s former Chief Immigration Officer was killed. What a coincidence to have two high level former law-enforcement officers murdered in such a short period of time.
http://keltruthblog.com/blog/?p=361
Another point of note. I don’t know if you know where St. Leonards Church is located in Westbury Road. His Gap is right next to St. Leonards Church. Many years ago that Gap used to be occupied mainly by Black people. Over the years they have been pushed out by the Indians. His house is a stone two story house at tha bottom of the Gap on the right hand side. It is the last remaing house in that Gap which is still Black owned.
I hope that this did not have anything to with it.
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