Hadeeds facing ‘conspiracy to murder’ allegations

An­na-Lisa Paul

As the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the ar­rest of Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve deep­ens, new in­for­ma­tion has sur­faced that the cou­ple was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the of­fence of con­spir­a­cy to mur­der.

The in­for­ma­tion is con­tained in two search war­rants is­sued in the names of the cou­ple and signed by High Court Mas­ter Va­lene Guer­ra-Abra­ham on June 24. How­ev­er, there is no dis­clo­sure of any in­tend­ed vic­tim (s).

The in­dictable of­fence is con­trary to Sec­tion 5 (a) of the Of­fences Against the Per­son Act, Chap­ter 11:08.

The war­rants were ob­tained by Cpl El­don Cal­liste of the Spe­cial Branch.

A quan­ti­ty of elec­tron­ic de­vices in­clud­ing lap­tops, cell­phones, flash dri­ves, hard dri­ves, portable stor­age de­vices and doc­u­ments were seized from the two sus­pects.

Ac­cord­ing to the war­rant is­sued in the name of Genevieve, two lo­ca­tions at Or­ange Grove Es­tate, Trinci­ty and West­ern Cir­cle, West­moor­ings were searched; while the war­rant for Do­minic list­ed lo­ca­tions at Gold­en Grove Road, Pi­ar­co and Bayshore, West­moor­ings.

It is al­leged the de­vices con­tained ev­i­dence in­clud­ing pho­tographs, record­ings, doc­u­ments, voice notes, videos, au­dio record­ings, CCTV footage, texts, lo­ca­tion da­ta, in­clud­ing GPS, lo­ca­tion his­to­ry, ap­pli­ca­tion da­ta, com­mu­ni­ca­tions da­ta, stored com­mu­ni­ca­tion or stored da­ta in dig­i­tal or elec­tron­ic for­mat.

Copies of the war­rants formed part of the ap­pli­ca­tion by a team of at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the cou­ple, which was filed in the High Court this morn­ing.

Al­so in­clud­ed in the bun­dle was a list of items seized which claimed six Ap­ple Iphones; three lap­tops; sev­en Ipads; two flash dri­ves: one cen­tral pro­cess­ing unit; and one portable stor­age de­vice.

The cou­ple was ar­rest­ed on June 24, and have re­mained in cus­tody ever since.

Their ar­rest comes near­ly two weeks days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar en­dorsed a warn­ing by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that no seg­ment of so­ci­ety, in­clud­ing the so-called “one per cent,” was be­yond the reach of the law.

While no for­mal charges have been laid, there are un­con­firmed re­ports that in­ves­ti­ga­tors are seek­ing to ob­tain Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) for them.

In re­sponse to a Habeas Cor­pus ap­pli­ca­tion by at­tor­ney-at-law Faris Al-Rawi, Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad to­day or­dered that Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro ap­pear on Mon­day to an­swer if the cou­ple’s de­ten­tion was in fact pur­suant to a PDO.