Police identify murder file leak suspects

Thu, Jun 2nd 2011, 11:33 AM

The officers who police suspect released the murder scene photos of Nellie Brown-Cox have been identified, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade told The Nassau Guardian yesterday.
Greenslade said, however, that he has not yet decided what punishment the officers will face for allegedly leaking the photos to the public.
Brown-Cox was chopped to death sometime between April 6 and 7.  Prince Hepburn, 49, was charged with the murder.
Police found her mutilated body in the kitchen of an apartment on Bougainvillea Avenue, South Beach.
Photos of Brown-Cox's chopped body, the blood-filled apartment she died in and the murder weapons used were circulated via e-mail across the country.  A police case report was leaked.
"Based upon the investigation that was done into the leaks, and based on what is in the case file, I will give a public statement shortly. I do have the case file on my desk and it tells us clearly who is in breach," said Greenslade.
"We have to be held to the highest professional standards and we cannot side step where there was a wrong. Where the trust of the public has been breached, where a wrong has been committed, no officer is going to be above the law."
Greenslade added that he was also forced this week to discharge three officers for "conduct that is in breach of what is right and decent."
He said two of the officers were found to have taken illicit drugs after testing positive during random drug tests. A third officer was accused of a number of violations each of which warranted discharge from the force, said Greenslade.
"I go to bed with a clear conscience that I'm protecting the rights of all citizens in this country and we're not going to allow anyone to breach laws and feel they can get away with it," said the commissioner.
Greenslade emphasized that the officers had internal police trials before being discharged.

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