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Police Rebutt
posted (November 11, 2010)
Last night we told you about the report that police had badly beaten three prisoners at the Magistrate's Court Holding Cell.

Well, today police denied that anyone was beaten but conceded that there was some kind of struggle. Press Officer Sargeant Fitzroy Yearwood reports that the Police officers assigned to watch the cell found that somehow a prisoner got hold of a cell phone.

The officer tried to recover the phone and a struggle ensued but the police say they did not beat anyone and all three persons were admitted to prison without incident.

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