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Hon. Hulse Says Son Was Defending Himself
Mon, February 20, 2017
And while Hulse was businesslike when he spoke about the plight of potato farmers, he was far more animated when he discussed a criminal complaint involving his son. That young man is accused of pulling a gun on a man he'd had a business dispute with. The report has been with Belmopan police for a month but no arrest has been made. Today Hulse said his son bears no blame for the business dispute which got physical:

Reporter
"January 22, your son Kensly was accused of pistol whipping a man at a gas station in Belmopan. He has not been charged as yet. Can you comment or maybe share an update?"

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Agriculture
"Absolutely not, he didn't pistol whip anybody. You could actually call the young man and go see you know. Let me give you a bit of the case so you know. Let me quick give you the chronology young man: A man came to the gas station as I understand it and my son was with me in the south that day to buy some butane. After his truck was filled, he decided not to pay, because he said "Oh your meter is wrong." He left without paying. Not only did he leave without paying, he came back with a police. Why the hell would a police come back is beyond me. Police inspects the meter and tank. Now I don't know what expertise he has to do that, because other people were buying. He left again without paying. When my son found out I said to him "report it to the police, because the guy as to pay." My son I think reported, I am not sure who he reported it to, but anyhow he gave the guy the receipt. The guy went down to the station Sunday morning while my son and his wife and his kid were heading to Mountain Pine Ridge and in the station attacked as I understand it the attendants - cursing up etc."

"My son got there into that cursing match as well. Not only did he get into the cursing match, he (the man) rushed towards hos vehicle. Now my son doesn't know what the hell is coming out of the vehicle and so my son grabbed him. That is my understanding from everybody there, and pulled out his weapon. While he did that, the wife came and whap him in his back with something. Now please explain to me if you should stand there to make some foreigner or some Guatemalan or whoever he kill you backside and then run across the border and the case done. I say hell no."

"The police were instructed by whomever to do their thing. I didn't intervene any at all."

Reporter
"Sir, a person pulls out a weapon and assaults. Whether it is a foreigner or a local. The person is the son of a minister, the police have attempted to arrest him twice. He has been taken into the police station and each time a telephone call has been made to release him. How would you define such a statement? Because you've given us a story, but that belongs in court. Yet the police cannot get your son to the court."

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Agriculture
"The police has the responsibility to look at a case properly and decide if they are going to charge or not charge and let me tell you something Mr. Wade, it is not pulling out a gun and assault. Please, this is defending yourself, your property, your employees and everybody around and God forbid, if you can't do that in this country, then we have a problem."

Reporter
"That is what the court decides whether your story is right or not, but what the officers are saying is that they can't get to the court because they cannot charge your son. They want to charge him. They have brought him in twice. Could you please speak on the matter that he has been brought in twice by the police, yet they charge him. Not because they don't want, but because they state it is political interference."

Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Agriculture
"That is your interpretation. The police who is giving you "shushu" information, that is your information. It is certainly not mine. I have no political interference in the matter."

The Police press office has refused to issue any statement on the complaint.

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