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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

PM QUESTIONED ALLEGED ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
27/02/07
Deli Oso/PM Press Secretary

Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has questioned the investigative process which led to the withdrawing of charges against an Australian man in relation to an alleged assassination attempt.

Bill Johnson, 61, was charged last month with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit a felony against the Prime Minister. The charges were withdrawn last week in the Honiara Magistrates’ Court by the Director of Public Prosecutions, who submitted that statements made by the principal police witnesses were “inconsistent”.

In his speech to mark the end of the three-week parliamentary sittings, Mr. Sogavare said initial statements voluntarily made by police which resulted in charges being laid against Mr Johnson had been dramatically altered after Australian-led RAMSI investigators became involved in the case.

The Prime Minister said there had been a deliberate attempt to discredit the original police statements rather than to properly investigate the serious nature of the charges.

Mr Sogavare told parliament that he was aware of rumours and speculation suggesting the charges had been laid in an attempt to bolster his case for the re-arming of the Close Protection Unit, announced last month. He said he totally rejected that speculation.

“Why would I want to do that? Why would anyone want to do that?” he asked.

In a later statement released over the weekend, Mr. Sogavare said that despite the original statements by police being made of their own volition to the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, those statements had later been altered and amended to result in the inconsistencies referred to by the DPP.

“These police officers came to us because of their concerns. We didn’t go to them. And we acted accordingly which resulted in the charges being made.

“The alterations to those original statements were a deliberate attempt to discredit the principal police witnesses, rather than to properly investigate the seriousness of the charges.

“Why were those police statements altered on three occasions over as many days and taken out of their original context after RAMSI personnel had taken over the investigation?” Mr. Sogavare asked.

The Prime Minister also used his weekend statement to once again rebuff earlier reports that the Australian government had been implicated in the alleged assassination attempt.

“This was never suggested or intimated at any time. I can only conclude that it was a fanciful misinterpretation made by some sections of the media who became aware of an alleged ‘$50,000 bounty’ which was described as being in Australian dollars,” Mr. Sogavare said.

The Prime Minister said he found it ironic that the Australian Prime Minister had apparently seen fit to publicly deny reports of Australian involvement when no such suggestion had been made in the first place.

By Alfred Maesulia at 26 Feb 2007

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