Another senior member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has given an account of what he said was an orchestrated plan to prevent the security forces from apprehending Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
Major Garth Anderson testified on Friday morning at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry, that on May 18, 2010 military intelligence suggested that some Tivoli Gardens residents and persons from neighbouring communities had erected roadblocks. The barricades were to prevent the security forces from entering.
According to Major Anderson, up to 400 armed men were placed at certain locations and fortified sections of the community with sandbags.
The intelligence suggested that the men had been recruited to preventthe security forces from entering the community and serving extradition papers, he said.
The men were said to have been paid from $75,000 to $100,000 each.
