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Senior Superintendent of Police Chester Williams remains suspended with half pay and is awaiting a judicial review hearing in the Supreme Court. But now, Williams has seriously stepped up the pressure on the Police Department, particularly the senior command who he maintains victimized him as part of a political witch hunt. 7NEWS has learned that Williams yesterday made a compliant naming 2 senior police officers, alleging that they fabricated evidence against him, and tried to frame him for the murder of Jermaine Fuentes.

Viewers may recall that in early March we received reports of remains that were found buried in a shallow grave off the coastal road. Police believed the remains could have been those of Jermaine Fuentes who disappeared in 2003- and the story was that he was killed by a sort of police death squad – which it later emerged was alleged to have been led by Chester Williams. A story so odd that it seems incomprehensible, and that’s just what Williams said at the time when he blew up in an interview angrily alleging that he was being set up.

Well now that’s the same complaint he’s made – and we understand that the two officers named are very senior officers in the Eastern Division. Now Williams is asking the CIB office to investigate them for fabricating evidence against him and trying to implicate him for murder. Very steep charges, and today the Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby told 7NEWS that they will look into it like any other report.

And while the COMPOL doesn’t have much to say, the truth is he can’t because whichever way it goes, the adverse publicity resulting from this continuing feud threatens to do irreversible damage to the department’s image, if it hasn’t done so already.