On the tape the witness says he received a phone call from Christopher Coke on the evening of 29th October 2007 and Coke said someone had advised him that he had been indited in the United States……. Then Patrick Atkinson produced a statement by Dodo where she talks about listening to a tape made by one of the co-operating witnesses cited in the extradition request.
The Prime Minister took the bait and confirmed the date and the conversation. Ambassador Brenda LaGrange-Johnson on the afternoon of 29th October 2007, and during that visit she told him that a Grand Jury in New York had indited Christopher Coke. He reminded the Prime Minister that the previous day he had told the Enquiry that he received a visit from the U.S. The Prime Minister laughed heartily, obviously needing the comic relief because:Ī little earlier in the proceedings, Patrick Atkinson had drawn blood. Later, he intervened on the pretext that the witness “was under intense pressure”…. kept intervening to urge the Prime Minister not to answer such boring questions……. Adolph Edwards, was fixing up his client by showing the Prime Minster various documents supporting Dodo’s testimony and asking him if he was “aware of” them, K.D. Knight and the Prime Minister were back to being old friends and joking around. Knight finished by suggesting that the Prime Minister “should pack your bags and go!” law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips and thereby triggering the whole debacle, K.D.
accusing the Prime Minister of being “pathologically mendacious” ( via Afflicted Yard).Īs befitting the Prime Minister’s role in “sanctioning” the hiring of the U.S. Knight ended his cross-examination of Prime Minister Golding with his now familiar summing up: his suggestions getting more and more outrageous, his voice rising, his furious glare becoming more and more fixed on the witness.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding answering K.D.