‘SIDESHOWS’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Lead investigator in the “emailgate” case, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Mervyn Richardson yesterday called for an end to what he described as the “sideshows” by various paid computer experts, making pronouncements on the same e-mails he is investigating.
While Richardson said the parallel, privately funded findings were not interfering with his own investi­gation, he said it was “convoluting” the system outside the courts and may be prejudicing the issue in the court of public opinion.
“For the sake of transparency and accountability, those who know better should stop making statements that seem to be seeking to undermine the investigation,” Ri­chardson said in a telephone interview.