Dr. Frank McField JP drfrankmcfield @gmail TO: CHERYL RICHARDS SOLICITOR GENERAL CAYMAN ISLANDS BY HAND December 17, 2014 RE: Silvana Lewis’ Dear Ms. Richards, I am sure you recall that I assisted the police in the investigation of a brutal murder of a young man in McField Square. In spite of having being the person who obtained from a member of the community the license plate number of the Van used to commit the crime. In spite of the fact that I was willing to come forward to assist with the prosecution of the crime, I have been disrespected and abuse by the police and the DDP of my birth country. I recall your presence at some government cabinet meetings and I am sure you recall my position as Minister of government. You may also be aware that I have the honor of bearing the title of Justice of the Peace for the Cayman Islands. Therefore, for an Inspector of police to enter my property after being told by me that if he intended to seize properly he needed a warrant; but enter nevertheless and order his troops to begin that seize and in the process arrest me and a female employee in the most violent and abusive of manner, is most upsetting. I therefore, with the greatest respect, approach you in regards this matter which makes me disappointed in the way in which our police and prosecution systems function but specifically with regards the manner in which a female Nicaraguan national working in the Cayman Islands in my employment was falsely and maliciously prosecuted by the DPP after being abused physically and emotionally at her place of employment. If the prosecution had reasonable grounds to believe the allegations against Ms. Silvana Lewis before they discovered the police video (which is denied) then they would have had no reasonable grounds to have prosecuted her once awaken by the fact that the police were not using their own video to prosecute or freely making it available for her defense. As a man I am like many members of the public, male and female disgusted by the conduct of our so call peace officers who carried Ms. Lewis to jail with her body partly exposed to my customers. Madam, I have no idea if you have viewed this video or if you have listened to the recorded after arrest discussions by our peace officers, but even as a man I would have had no stomach to have continued with prosecution. Especially, after Magistrate Gunn determined that the police acted unlawfully when they began seizing personal property at Lewis’ place of employment. The consequences of their false arrest, assault and battery and subsequent malicious prosecution by the DPP has had the consequence of destroying Ms. Lewis’ good reputation which she needed for employment in the Cayman or her native country. Ms. Lewis has asked that I write to you not just as the person with responsibility for prosecution but also as a mother and daughter. Her prayer is that her public humiliation be put justly to an end by the decision of the DPP and police to compensate her for her suffering and lack of employment by making unnecessary a trial for compensation. Ms. Lewis says that she is unemployed in Nicaragua as a consequence of her very public arrest and prosecution. That she has no idea if the Immigration Department and Work Permit Board will ever reconsider her work permit application which remains in the state of deferral, or if they will grant her a permit with a less controversial employer. Ms. Lewis had no previous criminal record but I content that her oppressive treatment was partly due to my unfavorable status in these islands I love dearly. However, I will deal at the appreciate time with what I regard as the discrimination and victimization of persons associated with me. Of course I would love to argue why a radicalized approach and a by any means necessary resistance to abuse and oppression needs to begin in this country immediately but Ms. Lewis does not share my radical solution to oppression in my native land, and I mean to no longer make her guilty of any crime my association. What is left for me to do in this life is my responsibility and I prefer I pay alone for my future actions. Therefore, Ms. Lewis ask only to be allowed to regain her independence as a woman and a mother by being compensated and again being able to hold her head up wherever she might be able to escape the poverty of Nicaragua. Respectfully Yours, Dr. Frank McField JP
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:45:55 +0000
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