The family of Nicholas Roberts say they are still awaiting justice after he was shot by a police inspector in July last year.
Reports are that Roberts, a known character with a history of unsound mind, was at the Convent Prep on the day he was shot by Inspector Lincoln Corbette.
There have been wide spread allegations that Roberts was caught in the act of making sexual advances on a five-year-old girl at the school located close to Police Headquarters.
Police had confirmed to DNO that they were conducting their investigations into the circumstances surrounding the shooting incident which occurred on Bath Road on July 13, 2011.
However, Roberts was arrested and later slapped with six charges by a junior police officer.
The charges included loitering, battery on police in execution of duty, and battery on a child, among others.
He pleaded guilty to loitering and not guilty to all the other charges and was remanded in custody, but on the advice of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was granted bail.
Police Superintendent Daniel Carbon was mandated to conduct the investigations.
In his report he concluded and recommended that “Inspector Corbette be charged criminally for unlawfully and intentionally shooting Nicholas”.
However, to date the matter continues to be of concern because the investigations seem incomplete, according to police chief Cyril Carette.
Commissioner Carette appointed another one man investigator, ASP Ainsworth Irish, to probe into the matter which has so far drawn lots of comments from the general public.
The latest information suggests that “the Irish investigation is complete” and the report submitted to the police commissioner.
Carette has confirmed receiving that report.
He indicated that “Irish has completed his work and submitted his report which has been sent to the DPP for his advice on the matter.”
DPP Gene Pestaina has confirmed that the file has been sent to him, but he declined to give any further details on the matter.
a bag he takes
is a bag he take
All I am concern of, is equity before LAW are police officers gods that they can DEFY and undermine the very same LAW which they have sworn to uphold and protect?
I am mad also the police should brake his spine the the famly should be charge for haveing a mad man forming the fool in the public thay want money tell them go to hell what that man was dooing in the girls toilet any body support these family a just like them
I think the officer involved may be a hot head and a quick draw, however, if there was ever a time for him to be such a person, that was it.
The family of the accused should be happy that he wasn’t killed and they should do their best to get him help and to keep him off the streets.
Something we don’t clearly understand in Dominica is that when we label our family members as Mentally Ill, we have to take responsibility for them and their actions. Someone who is certified as mentally unfit to carry out normal functions and behaviors in society has to have their rights forwarded to the charge of a caretaker. Such person, the caretaker, accepts that this mentally ill person is their responsibility and they are now liable for all the mentally ill person’s actions.
I’m sorry that the entire thing happened, but I think that if I were to find myself in that situation as the officer, if I didn’t have a gun the supposedly mentally ill person would have suffered maybe worst damage as I may have lost all sense of reasoning to see my child, or any other child, with a man in such a compromising situation.
famaily await what justice, this guy was a pervert,a menace to young children,where were the family when he was violating the young girl, as far as i see it he should have been six feet down, this family members are to wicked to have a rapist on the loose and then asking for justice
ya ya so let the man rape the innocent child then the father will shoot him,alas, if it was any one of our children would we call police first ,,,just think …
Guys like them messing with people children need to be taken care of.
justice should be fair and equal to all so let the law take its course i bet if is skerrit that was in the bathroom he would not shoot him but is that nasty habbit dominicans have that if you r nothing then remain as nothing n we can kill you too.
Not nice,what if it was your child?what would you have done
especially” LAW
Did you read your comments after you wrote it, i don’t think so. Are you saying that the man shouldn’t have been shot?So he could just let the man touch and kiss his daughters private part. well i thank God he was cause maybe he would come back to see how many 5 year old private parts he could kiss and touch< Did you know that when he was released he went to St. Martens primary and touched a footballers child. The school is trying to keep it under hush hush but it did happen. Corbette no matter what they say it your child do what ever you see fit for you child, if you did not do anything about it the same set of people wuld have so much to say about you.
You too need to go to school.You are sounding more ignorant and stupid than a blogger by the name of noname.You deserve counselling or to be locked up.
This officer should receive the full extent of the law, so that he will behave as an officer. The insane man should have been arrested and taken to be dealt with by the law after a psychological examination. You must go to church and pray to God to remove the develish intentions from your heart,because one day you may get someone to deal with you real bad.Ignorance seem to be your bliss.Sad to say though, Dominica is so crooked, i keep my fingers crossed as to what will eventually happen to this officer.
The only reason I would prosecute the officer is because he did NOT shoot straight. A man cannot be that close and molesting a child for you not to dayfonsay him with a quick head-shot. He is guilty like hell for missing his target- A Clean Head Shot. In my days on the force that would be totally unacceptable.
All rapists deserves death in my book.
bonjeaa, the police do right……i hve an 8 yr old and i would do the same thing, maybe worse.that man family have no shame………..
Don’t rejoice every dog has it’s bone
I have children and if a man touch my 5 or 8yr old, i would do the same.
That will not teach nowhere. U dou see what had to happen for Trayvon Martin parents to get justice? Power of the people and unity. Mister dou have nobody for him or behind him really so that is a cold case in Dominica especially.
with this guys history HE SHOULD BE NO WHERE NEAR ANY SMALL CHILDREN………..I SAW THAT BASTARD CUT A LITTLE BOY HAND WITH A CATSGUT IN ROSEAU BOYS SCHOOL YARD….TELLING THE BOY HOLD THE LINE TIGHT AND THEN PULL IT SO THAT IT CUT THE YOUT HAND….
secure mister please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if it was your child wouldn’t you just find that man and kill kill his a…?
but then is you the same police would lock up.
you would never get satisfaction if you would try to take that to court
Where is the Police Comm. on this case? The Police Service Commission is a non entity.The gys onthat are the good Skerrti Freedomites-. They don’t have a voice on anything – just holding meetiings for meetiing sake. That entity needs to be desolved bevus eit is worthless.
all who is crying for the officer get justice, happy for them because if it was their daughter, police or not would have done the same thing and those of us who is happy what the cup did would be saying the same thing. this same guye went at the st. martin school, and scare the hell out of the children. the principal should stay mute and let him molest our children? well i am very sorry. i have a princess going there, and may god guide and protect her and all other little girls against this monsters, and telling you i don’t have a gun but that private would cut out, and feed to the animals.
Stop being an…so u mean a reasonable man would have shot a mentally ill man for doing what he did? I think not!! A reasonable man would have called the Police who would then do what they needed to do which was charge him!!! That Corbette man should have known better, after all he is a member of the Police Force!!!
so u mean a reasonable court would charge a mentally ill man? your jack them suckers have all theire good head
I’m really baffled here…You mean Dominican condoning this behaviour of Nicholas Roberts! First of all, what the hell you doing in the children’s washroom at a Private school!!!! If I was Corbette I would have shoot him too …
GOOD JOB OFFICER CORBETTE
AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT MY 9 YEAR OLD WAS ON THE COMPOUND, WHAT YOU DID WAS FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN.
THANK GOD YOU CAME WHEN YOU DID
Somebody please tell me. Is that the same corbette who had gun boot principal prison office white with a gun on his forehead while white was doing security at a reunion event @ marigot
Aiding and abetting crime and you awaiting justice? Only if you mean you waiting for the child’s to handle him then I can understand.
If as a police officer no one advances on me with any sort of weapon I WILL SHOOT YOU! PERIOD!
You are simply an idiot and an ignoramus at the same time.
Such hypocrisy: when the young lady from st. joseph went missing people cried tears of blood because they felt enough wasn’t being done to find her, when shernel died we blamed the “powers that be” for not doing enough to save her, when the two girls were killed by their mother we wanted her head on a platter and now when a man does everything in his power to protect his child…we cry foul.
BOSS i’m a father of two girls…..and any man, any animal, any scum of hell that even thinks of laying a hand of shame on anyone of my girls…….
WELL SAID
I agree but then again the same police would come so fast and lock you up.
When it happens to their children they act fast but they tell us do not take the law in our hands. I know of children who have been abused and nothing is being done to the abusers.
Sad, but so unfortunately very true.
The shooting was clearly unjustified. Thats nonsense with them throwing the child thing in. That has not even been proven:
1. if he has know pyschlogical problems then why is he on the street?
2. If the cop was on the scene why the need to shoot the guy. I am sure he could be arrested.
3. peronal feelings and the law are two different things. Unlike what most you dummies think with your stupid comments, a person must be proven guilty.
4. How can an insane man plead to a charge? where is his attorney? you mean they sent an insane man to a judge without a lawyer?
dummest thing i heard off ever. the cop should be arrested and charged for attempted homicide.
The fella still alive – there was no homicide
AS I SEE IT, the operative word here is ATTEMPTED can’t you understand??
So because there was no homicide the family cannot seek juctice? Give me a break
People we need to be honest, had it been my child i would have done the same i don’t blame the police. He should not be facing any criminal charges, he should be given a pat on the back, Dominicans are too bias, if you all only knew this guy Nicholas you would not say anything,
I am pretty sure that his family knows him that is why they abandoned him in the first place. investigate and see who is his parents. Family members you all know what kind of criminal that you all have. Look at his past history. He was around St Martins Primary School and parents were so scared since its only little girls in small school. I was also scared since i have a girl child at that school.
Police officer you should have given him six more shots and you would have eased us of our fears. Don’t worry You protected your daughter and God will be very happy with you for that. I would have been happy if you were there to protect my daughter too, had it been she.
Tell the Police force leave you alone you did the right thing since they have numerous reports on that guy, so you could not have taken a chance.
GOOD JOB POLICE OFFICER
CONTINUE TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD AND OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN.
BRAVO!! BRAVO!! BRAVO!!
It’s no surprise that people like you have noname as your name. You also lack commonsense and logic,but you are filled with deadly criminal acts in your psyche.
What you failed to do was to advise the authorities to build a residence for those characters and have them there. These things will continue to happen as long as these men are on our streets. Brainless people like you do not know better, but will you gun down all these mentally challenged people?
You must go buy an exercise book and a pencil and go educate your empty criminal brain.
yeah, you dont have a lil girl u see…nicholas is not no mental ill…..the bastard jus wickkkkkkkkeedddd
i hope he give you a taste of what he can give
you have no sense to go with your no name. a plain and simple idiot. Mr/ms NOBODY, as far as I can see this is a no comment from you.
I’m not in favor of the discharging of firearms in public but people we must not forget the situation here, too many of these kind of people out there harming our children .If it was me who knows what I would do
what justice these people awaits? it should have been my daughter and all you would have told me about justice…. that inspector did that child molester, that rapist and pedophile justice. these people needs to put some sense in their head… molesting a five year old and get ONLY one bullet and you want justice? you must be joking!
nothing is going to come out of this trust me.files passing from one to the next like no one wants to be the one responsible for putting the bell on the cat.crime chief washing his hands,dpp washing his hands so its a matter of pilate…but honestly corbette is too arrogant for a police officer but again he got away already in the past with shooting so………………
but if it was me dat do,
what police corbette do..
they wouldn’t hear for the love of child nuh
the police chief needs to go, he did his time and is way to comfortable he needs to be put under watch.. this man thinks he has to much power and is forgetting how things need to be done
He needs to go so you can jump in toilet and hide too?
….yea…..on your back…the big pit toilet
yes!!! on your back aka the incredible pit toilet!!!
the law is starting to be confusing. why all those ups and down, the law is the law follow the law and make things and stop trying to go in favour with anybody
How many people would stand aside and watch their five (5) years old daughter be assaulted by a known law offender? The police knows the guy ,thats his mode of operation.what was he doing in the school? Is there a shop at the school? He was searching for his prey but he messed with the wrong kid. Why dont we see Inspr corbette as a citizen who protected his kid instead of seeing him as a police who shot somebody. Are we saying that we should throw (5) five year old kids to the wolves? (God bless that your father was there and your dont have to live wth the scars of this animal.) Corbette still had pitty on him. Police are trained to shoot center MASS . and he wasnt. Supporter of child protection against crime and violence. (XCOP) and those who seem to suggest that the officer should be charged ask yourself this question.WHAT IF IS WAS MY KID? LOOK AT YOUR KID AND ASK WHAT IF IT WAS YOU. AND MAKE A COMMITTMENT TO ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR KIDS. (PG)
Very well said.Even animals protect their young.
Carrette Must Go!!
stupez…the family should more be concerned of having the aviol around their children…i dislike molesters..ughhh
There is a lot of none sense going on in the Police Force, that’s why I think Mr Carrette asked for another officer to investigate.
Inspector Corbette is one of, if not the fasted promoted Officer in the Force. Already an Inspector where as others who has been there for years before him, are still constables.
So who knows……there might be some jealousy there, hence more investigations.
Yeah fasted promoted not because of performance just politics!!!!
yap.agreed
Well i want the inspec free bcuz if is my five year old is gentle rest that would come to pass. The family never care all d time he moving around like a vagrant. They sensing they can make a small change they pushn hard. Tel them continue dat case dead n bury bury a rogish one try condem the man but jah guide
So had the so-called innocent defendant raped the child; would the family have come forward?! They would deny being related to him!
Before the incident occured, why didn’t the ‘family’ take him in and gv him the necessary help he needed??
Let a man put a finger on my child and he will find out!
exactly!
I thought after an investigation , if there are eyebrows to riase it would be the Police Service Commission making that move.
what family? He lives a the road like a vagrant, attacking innocent children, so what family are you talking about? Tell that family to take him in, get him off the streets and get him the psychological help he needs to stop attacking children.
Unfortunately for the family, justice will not come their way. Not with Carrette around and the pervasive spread of corruption and inefficiencies in public institutions.
The young man did not deserve to get shot.use the law to the fullest.give him a hard penalty.a country will not run right,unless the laws are beeing enforce.that’s one of Dominica biggest problems
Is Irish a police officer or a politician? No wonder this police force is so d–,pregnant with issues.
This country is so corrupt,don’t be surprised that the alleged shooter gets a promotion.
What none-sense by the Chief of Police. Daniel Carbon has been one of the top cops in the CID(Criminal Investigation Department) and the Police chief is casting him aside in the investigation and instead is appointing an officer who has been in Traffic? I would like to know whether Mr Irish is a better investigator than Carbon. For Mr carbon to suggest that officer Corbette be charged, he must have discovered incriminating evidence from his investigation. Once again we see the incompetence of the Police Chief who does not operate by the ambit of the law but according to his personal and political biases and again we are seeing mal-administration of justice.
And, once again you are here in public denigrating, insulting, and vilifying a man for taking a decision about which you clearly do not have a clue!
When are we going to learn to be civil in Dominica? How is it that every issue is an opportunity to insult, tear down, persecute persons?
One would think that on an island with just over 71,000 persons we would be more interested in being respectful and civil as opposed to be bombastic and ill-mannered.
Apparently you have been “peeping” but are discovering nothing expect what you one sided blindness leads you to see.
What have I said in my post that amounts to denigrating, insulting, and vilifying. Oh maybe you just discovered a few new words for you vocabulary so you want to show off what you know. And if you are talking about the Police Chief, he is a public figure in a public office so where is it more appropriate to discuss him than in a public forum.
If you had taken time off to read my post rather than rushing to comment you would have seen that I only said that Superintendent Carbon was and still is more qualified to conduct the investigation of the alleged crime than Mr Irish taking into consideration his experience in the Criminal Investigation Department. So for the Police Chief to cast aside Mr Carbon’s Report and set up his own investigator amounts to using his personal biases rather than his professional qualifications.
And as for some of you, and whatever you are peeping at, you have nothing analytical to say about issues presented so you respond to what other people say.
Wait still. lol
Wow, serious stuff there. I will not comment further on this cause I’m a man of the law as well.
sorry for them