The governing People’s Progressive Party has backtracked on a statement it issued last week labelling murdered Agricola youth Shaquille Grant as a criminal.

In a Wednesday evening statement, the party offered “an unequivocal apology to the mother of Shaquille Grant for this unfounded assertion and for any hurt and harm caused.”

The statement from the party came just hours after Shaquille Grant’s mother called on the PPP to apologise for the statement. The 17-year-old youth was gunned down in the Agricola yard of a relative by police officers two years ago.

Three police officers were charged with his murder. Only one of them has appeared in court. The other two officers remain on the run and are believed to have fled the country.

In its press release last week, the PPP sought to link Opposition Leader David Granger to another young man from Agricola, Kevin Fields, who was shot dead by a businessman during a robbery earlier this year.

Fields was in a photograph at the 2012 funeral of the murdered youth Shaquille Grant while Granger was consoling Grant’s mother.

Grant was never charged for any crime and had no criminal record or was not linked to any criminal activity when he was gunned down by the Police on September 11, 2012.

Just a year before his murder, he was presented with a certificate by the Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, after he completed a police anti crime programme.

Filed: 3rd December, 2014

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