RVIPF reviewing unsolved murders, cold cases for deeper probe- CoP Collins
The Commissioner made this announcement during an address to members of the Rotary Club of Tortola on July 8, 2021.
CoP says cases have been personally reviewed
“I want you to be reassured that since coming here, I have personally reviewed every single one of the outstanding murders we’ve got since last September and I am confident that a number of those will be brought to fruition soon with charges being laid,” he said.
The Commissioner said that coming out of the UK is a Senior Investigation Officer and a new post of Cold Cast Review Officer has been created at the RVIPF, to assist with staff support relating to investigations.
“That Cold Case Review Officer will work with the DPP’s officer with the Senior Investigation Officer, and we will start to re-open some of the outstanding cases we’ve got in the RVIPF.”
Mr Collins said that he remains confident that some of the outstanding cases will be detectable.
“So that’s a really important step forward as a start to, I think… give greater confidence and satisfaction to our community that we are looking at some of these cold cases as well,” he said.
Unsolved Murders
Meanwhile, over the years, the Major Crime Investigations Team at the RVIPF has requested the public’s assistance in identifying the perpetrators responsible for some high-profile murders.
Some of the murder victims include 23-year-old Melissa Spence, a native of Trinidad; Kendoy Penn of Old Plantation; 46-year-old Julio Pineda Ceasor of Greenland; and Nyron F. Ollivierre, a native of Trinidad.
Others include Cardinal R. Fahie aka 'Wolf' and Jefferson M. Joseph killed on April 16, 2017, and May 26, 2011, respectively.
According to police records, the oldest of the unsolved murders from those listed is from September 21, 2004, some 17 years ago when a construction worker attached to a house project at Little Bay observed the body of Spence being thrown against the rocks at the bay in that area.
A year later on September 18, 2005, at around 1:00 am, the victim, Kendoy Penn, was on his way home, driving his vehicle when an unknown individual shot him. Penn succumbed on September 22, 2021, while on life support at the then Peebles Hospital.
Recent Killings
More recent murders include the shooting deaths of Vincentian Deverson Williams, who was killed in March 2021, and businessman Earl D. Hodge aka 'Bob', who was slain in February 2021.
The force is also looking into the 2020 deaths of Everton McMaster Jr and Matthew D. Daly aka 'Shorty', who were also both gunned down in the VI.
It should be noted; however, that Mr Collins' pledge is also something that the previous Commissioner, Michael B. Matthews, made; however, results are yet to be seen.
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23 Responses to “RVIPF reviewing unsolved murders, cold cases for deeper probe- CoP Collins”
while matthew held the post of top cop a drug bust was worth more than solving murders in our territory big international press conferences after a drug seizure but not 1 word from him or the same big press conferences regarding updates to families about the unsolved killings in the british virgin islands
no one have the balls to stand up and question anything the Englishmen says but have such bad things to say about your own country
To you, Mr No secret, on the other hand every time you all talk about corruption the only set of people that are corrupt is the Police. Why do you all forget to mention CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION. Is it because they are from the BVIs.
No excuse under the face of the Sun for Cops to be dirty or corrupt but what are you all doing as a society to put an end to it since you all know which COP is dirty. Action speaks louder than words.
Well Mr. Secret the Police is no more Corrupt than CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION. Also remember that the Police, as corrupt as they are, they are the only Department that lock up their own.
I know that the Police don't get paid for extending criminal time at immigration. They don't get paid for allowing criminal to come into the territory.
The Police don't get paid for allowing illegal stuff to come through customs at the ports.
Compare to other countries where the Police can go into immigration and customs as part of their duties, they can not do that in the BVIs. So, No secret come again. I know that you all don't like the truth but that is the Gospel.