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Cop retains attorney Christopher Townsend as INDECOM summons him to Q&A in Donaldson case
Christopher Townsend
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Claude Mills  
July 21, 2022

Cop retains attorney Christopher Townsend as INDECOM summons him to Q&A in Donaldson case

KINGSTON, Jamaica— The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) will next month question Constable Noel Maitland in the disappearance of social media personality, 24-year-old Donna-Lee Donaldson.

Maitland has retained the services of prominent attorney-at-law Christopher Townsend, who confirmed that investigators will grill the corporal about his involvement with the social media personality. The notice was served on Maitland to answer questions before INDECOM as the agency conducts a “special investigation” to determine if there are any grounds to suspect any member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has contravened the law.

“He will be interviewed on August 3rd and his attorney will be present,” Townsend told OBSERVER ONLINE.

Donaldson was reported missing on July 13. According to police reports, on July 11, about 10:00 pm, Donaldson was picked up at her house by her boyfriend, Maitland, in a black BMW motor car to spend the night with him at an apartment located at Chelsea Manor in Kingston.

However, on July 12, Donaldson’s mother, Sophia Lugg, reported to police that she had not seen or heard from her daughter.

Reports further indicated that Constable Maitland, from Constant Spring Police Station, who is the father of a child for a district constable at the Half-Way-Tree Police Station, told Lugg that Donaldson left his apartment on Tuesday, July 12, sometime after 11:00 am and has not been seen or heard from since.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Fitz Bailey, at a press conference on Monday afternoon, said that the police have processed the cars of the missing woman’s boyfriend and his baby’s mother.

“We don’t endorse the fashion in which the matter is being investigated. The police are singling out my client and his girlfriend and it doesn’t appear that the investigation is wider than that. The true perpetrators are probably out there laughing,” Townsend said.

Townsend disclosed that two eyewitnesses have come forward to say that they saw Donaldson leave Maitland’s apartment on July 13.

Townsend also revealed that the police have returned to Maitland’s apartment this afternoon to conduct a second forensic sweep.

“We are facilitating it because we’re interested in the police locating Ms Donaldson and we’re doing everything we can to assist the police in that regard,” he said.

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