Wanted Cricketer Carlyle Barton still to be placed on Interpol list

Wanted Cricketer Carlyle Barton still to be placed on Interpol list

Three months after the Director of Public Prosecutions instructed that murder charges be reinstated against cricketer Carlyle Barton who was caught on tape shooting a man to death, the Guyana Police Force is still to make moves to have the man placed on the wanted list of Interpol.

A check of the Interpol wanted list reveals no information about the wanted man, although police investigators have received several reports that he has reportedly fled the country.

Barton was set free in November 2013 on the murder charges after several witnesses including police witnesses failed to attend court and give evidence. One month after the case was thrown out for lack of evidence, the DPP instructed that the man be rearrested and charged.

However, by then the young man had already left the country and in January the Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell and the Crime Chief Seelall Persaud both admitted that the Police Force had no information about the whereabouts of the murder accused. The Commissioner of Police also serves as the Chief Immigration Officer. There were no efforts, according to sources, to have the man blocked from leaving the country.shot-320x265

Now more than three months after the DPP gave advice for the charges to be reinstated, the International Police Cooperation group is still to put out an international bulletin for the man which may be as a result of the organisation not getting any information from local police.

Barton was caught on surveillance cameras in the Orange Walk area in Georgetown firing a gun at Durban Street resident Shawn Nelson. In the video which was aired on the TV newscast, Capitol News, Nelson was seen falling to the ground after being struck by the bullet as Barton jumped into his car and drove off from the scene after shooting the man.

The Guyana Police Force has repeatedly come under criticism for its handling of evidence and witnesses in major cases. During the preliminary inquiry into the shooting death, police officers did not appear in court to enter evidence against the accused. Family members of the dead man have complained bitterly about the lackadaisical way in which the investigation and the case were handled by the Police.

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