SUPERINTENDENT Harry ‘Bungles’ Daley is to know, in another two weeks, whether he will face imprisonment or be acquitted of a count of corruption in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday reserved her verdict until November 18, following closing submissions from counsels representing both the Crown and the senior cop.

In her brief address, attorney Valerie Neita-Robertson urged the court to find Daley not guilty, while arguing that the prosecution had not substantiated the allegations of its main witness, St Catherine businessman Tafari Clarke.

Clarke had testified that he had been paying Daley a monthly sum since 2007 in return for protection against a man called Terry, in relation to a plaza his (Clarke’s) relatives operated in Ewarton, St Catherine.

Continuing her submission, Neita-Robertson said that the Crown had not provided the evidence to show that Daley had collected protection or extortion money from Clarke.

Neita-Robertson also said that the allegations made by Clarke were unreliable, while classing his evidence as self-serving.

On the other hand, prosecutor Dirk Harrison, told the court in a lengthy address that the Crown was under no obligation to corroborate Clarke’s evidence.

The prosecutor called on Pusey to reject Daley’s evidence that the money he had been collecting was repayment on a loan to Clarke’s deceased uncle, while describing the senior officer as the “quintessential corrupt cop”.

Daley, who was arrested in a sting operation on July 30 last year after collecting $15,000 in marked thousand dollar notes from Clarke, has been on trial since April.