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My bodyguard’s killer not a ‘mad man’, says mayor
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Observer staff reporter ?dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, February 22, 2010
MAYOR of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie is dismissing suggestions that the attacker of his late bodyguard Special Constable Norman Nunes is mentally challenged. The 29-year-old Nunes was last Friday assaulted while driving along Maxfield Avenue, in the vicinity of the Half-Way-Tree Police Station in St Andrew.
It was first reported that the man, who seemed to be mentally challenged, hit the cop’s car. Nunes in alighting from the car to confront his attacker was severely beaten with a piece of metal pipe which the man had hidden behind him.
Nunes died at the Kingston Public Hospital Friday night.
But McKenzie, obviously grieving from the loss, said some facts had been misconstrued.
“It is being alleged the attacker was mentally challenged. No, he knew exactly what he was doing. It speaks to those persons who continue to be deported to this country. The man was a deportee,” McKenzie told supporters gathered yesterday at a Jamaica Labour Party Area Council One meeting in Papine, St Andrew.
Nunes, the mayor added, had alighted to examine the car when he was “attacked from behind”.
McKenzie also lashed local human rights groups for their silence on the incident.
“When you take action against those people a sector of this society condemns you and I don’t hear one of these organisations coming out and speaking about the tragic way this policeman lost his life,” said McKenzie. Nunes was never a violent person, he added.
“We have lost a promising young man. What it means is it can be Nunes today but you or me tomorrow,” McKenzie said.
The policeman’s attacker, who was chased and shot by a cop from the Half-Way-Tree Police Station, remains in hospital under police guard.
 
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2/24/2010
What medical school did the mayor graduated from?
2/22/2010
how can anybody believe anything the police say? first we have their formula about man shooting at them 1st, them returning the fire and man found suffering from gunshot wounds. then in this story we heard in earlier newscasts that the cop exited his vehicle to accost the man who had damaged his vehicle when he was attacked only to hear recently now that he exited his vehicle to look at the damage. which do you believe?
2/22/2010
It is so sad that influential persons like Mayor Mckenzie only seem to take vested interest in the crime situation when it hits close to home. Do you think the goodly mayor would be ranting and raving if this had happened to a "commoner" from this plantation called Jamaica? We are living in a prejudice society. It is no more the the colour of your skin but the class you fall in. Selah.
2/22/2010
I wonder what hes going to say next? It was a pnp deportee hahaha
2/22/2010
This is fascinating. Where is the evidence that the attacker is of unsound mind? He, as are so many others in the Island, may just be wicked.
2/22/2010
Policemen kill and abuse people everyday and no politician say anything , damn african tribalist , slave sellers and oppressors of the majority of Jamaican.
no wonder you people are so limited mentally.
2/22/2010
See what I mean. So what if the man was a deportee? He is still mentally challenged. It is unfortunate the young officer lost his life and he may have been one of the good cops to boot, but mental illness is such , the ability to reason. He could have hit my car and I came out to examine it and was beaten also. It was random.
The man too was shot and I can almost bet he is NOT getting the best of care. Just my thoughts.
2/22/2010
LOL no wonder Jamaica in deep deep trouble the Mayor confuses Human Rights Activists with defenders of criminality he needs to apologize.
No wonder we cannot hear of see the outcome of any investigation into the killing of the five young men in Tivoli Gardens.
DJ Desmond you and your kind hurry up and leave politics so that Jamaica can move on from inept, confused non-leadership such as you and your kind has demonstrated.
....TG
2/22/2010
I am a jamaican living abroad and if for any reason I am deported or removed I will stil be a jamaican. so I don't see why the fact that the person lived outside jamaica for sometime would lesser the fact that he is of unsound minds..the mayor always come with some foolish outburst..its tragic that the guy lost his life but the person who killed him is said to be a madman.the mayor did not bring any proof to prove otherwise just an outburst against jamaicans..
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