“It’s explosive and it’s embarrassing….” that’s how a senior police officer with inside information on the shooting case involving police prosecutor inspector Lincoln Corbette describes that matter.
DNO can confirm that a recommendation has been placed on the file from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) stating, “that based on the information provided, we recommend that Inspector Corbette be charged..”
Investigations also reveal that the Attorney General Levi Peter is not supporting the recommendations of the office of the DPP, and that the case could result in a showdown between these two key offices.
Nicholas Roberts, a man known to the police as having a long list of criminal activity, was shot by police Inspector Lincoln Corbette on Bath Road on July 13, 2011.
Roberts is alleged to have been caught in the act of making sexually advances on a five-year-old girl at the time of the shooting.
Two months after the incident the official who was mandated to conduct the investigations, then Superintendent Daniel Carbon (now acting chief of police) handed in his report.
In it he concluded and recommended that “Inspector Corbette be charged criminally for unlawfully and intentionally shooting Nicholas…”
Carbon later asked to be excused from the matter and ASP Ainsworth Irish was detailed to investigate the case.
Roberts was slapped with six charges by a junior police officer (loitering, battery on police in execution of duty, battery on 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 DPP was granted bail in his own recognizance….”
The investigations reveal that Corbette shot Roberts behind his back while he was running and he (Corbette ) claims that Roberts had “a rake in his hand and stated I hitting you with that (twice).”
No indication has as yet been given whether Corbette will in fact be charged for the shooting, and when that’s likely to happen.
all corbette have to do now is call Al Shapton and the gang to come to his rescue they r Americans wowooooooo looky here
O Please! Let us not forget that a five year old was sexually assulted…What sick…. would harm such a young child?
I can completely understand why the officer shot that … ‘behind his back’.
Let’s not deviate from the criminal’s crimes please
Really Chrissy? when? papa bondieu! this is why there needs to be an investigation. So the prep teacher lie den? Rape and sexual assualt are serious violations on a child, woman, senior any person so we must not just make outlandish accusations for sensationalism. You all have to get a shock if this goes to court and read what Mr Corbette is now saying! Poor child didn’t even see man but was traumatised because she thought her daddy was hurt! boom
the child was NOT sexually assaulted. read story again. secondly, he shot the man in the back. that’s vigilante justice. not in accord with local law.
Thank u
AS a parent I am capable of shooting anyone who makes sexual advances on my daughter – even in the back. That is why I pray for God’s guidance and peace for who knows what would have happened if I were the inspector? But I guess the charge is for shooting him in the back. This is ticklish – the kind of moral error you wish did not happen.
all who suporting the rapist dont u all have children and thats how u all want to be in charge of the country too bad for those who are against MR CORBETTEhe did what he could to protect the child
Exactly my point
People we are missing one clear finding of the investigation, anybody would and should have done what Mr Corbette did to protect his child or any child.Here’s where this get sticky for him, it’s NOT about him shooting the man in the back, who cares where a rapist gets a bullet in the middle of violating a child? it’s about the TRUTH.. and sadly the truth is His child nor any other child was touched, cornered in a bathroom, violated etc as he first claimed.
I would have justified the shooting if the police man didn’t embelish his story to garner sympathy. All he had to say was that he met the damn stinking lowlife on the school premises, not only had he stolen a teachers purse, but being the man is a RAPIST and VIOLENT OFFENDER ( all facts) he persued him and the character attempted to wound him to make his getaway to he discharged his weapon.
We all would be stomping in his defense, but for a father, a high ranking law enforcement officer to say a man was about to rape his child in a bathroom all to cover up a percieved crime shows that he had the presence of mind to control his emotions.. Karmmem I’m no legal luminary so we go see. I’m certain the man won’t be demoted, charged or imprisoned, but he needs to apologise to the public for deliberately misleading us.
We have to rid society of dirty crates like that man, and it may well be he desrved a damn bullet or 2 for all the women and children he has violated, but in a civilised society the law is king, and you can’t make up such a story just for sympathy. That’s like someone telling you they have cancer, you raise funds for treatment, pray, cry with them, and just for find out you have been decieved the person went on a cruise with your money and that of the public.
Had the child been raped, what would be the song we would have been singing today? She would have to live with this hunted dilema throughout her life. A stain that would never be removed from Dominican tongue. I as a parent would not know what I would have done. Unles it reaches under our bed we know how it feels.
I KEEP TELLING DNO:
find that paro called “gravity” and ask him what
NICHOLAS ROBERTS does to him in the stock farm prison. I heard gravity saying with my own two ears, how ROBERTS beat him and rape him in the jail….
then they let this guy out among our children, when somebody will do away with him for their child we will hear the story THENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
sorry story we will hear it.
please think about what u are saying……if he shot him to prevent him from raping his daughter i could see your point….but based on the evidence he shot him to punish and tried to cover it up by placing a rake in the guy’s hand….which is taking the law in to his own hand….be careful for what u condone for the next time it could be you!!!
It doesn’t mean because the guy is a criminal that he should be shot from behind. No law will condone such, but at the end of the day Corbette will not charged farless to face the court.
Shot ‘behind his back’?? Don’t sound like proper English. It should be ‘in the back’.
That is because he really wasn’t shot in the back.Maybe they could have said,’with his back turned.”
well well corbett might have acted as a father we would have acted the same but at that time we would never think of the consequences. so really he is wrong to shoot the man from behind. if i had shoot a man even if is my child i would be right in the public eye but not the law so same goes to mr corbett . he could have held him took him to the force and give him a good licking so no one would have seen . but he did it in the public eye .
The fact that one is a pedophile and was caught in the act of making sexual advances at an underage child, is indeed a vexing issue. I would have “loose it “ on him if I were the parent witnessing such boldness being displayed by the despicable son of a gun. If I had a gun, I might have even winded up killing damn low life. But would it have been the right thing to do at the time?
I am sure that as a senior officer, Mr. Corbette would have been familiar with certain guidelines, laws and regulations pertaining to the use of his firearm. He would have also been aware of the fact that the use of his firearm would have resulted into an investigation be lunched into the circumstances surrounding the incident. I am sure that he would have also understood that if by discharging his firearm, he actions are deemed unlawful thereby resulting in criminal charges being laid against him.
The fact that one is armed and is allowed under the Firearms Act to protect life and property and is given the right to use force to protect themselves or anothers, to prevent crime and to effect a lawful arrest, should not be translated to mean that a mere provocation permits one to make use of his firearm. Police officers only use force to the extent that is necessary, proportionate and reasonable in all the circumstances. The force used must be necessary and reasonable.
If is it true that the man was running away running away at the time of the alleged shooting, it means therefore that neither the senior officer nor his daughter was at the time in any immediate danger. In fact, by the pedophile’s actions, it can be taken to mean that he was in fear for his life, thus the fact that he was running away. By shooting him in the back, Mr. Corbette can’t now state that he was defending himself or his daughter from the pedophile’s devious acts. The man did not even see the bullet coming at him. His back was turned. He was running away. He was in fear for his life.
It can be concluded that Mr. Corbette allowed himself to be consumed by his anger and in the process shut a defenseless man.
The fact that one is a police officer, does not mean that he is above the law. We are not gangsters for Christ’s sakes.
Superintendent Carbon rightfully recommended that the officer be charged and such should be respected as his actions would have been unlawful.
The fact that one is a police officer, does not mean that he is NOT HUMAN, NOT A FATHER!! I’m in my thirties not and that NICHOLAS there has been preying on kids since i was going to luther lessons at the old ROSEAU BOYS SCHOOL….they should have shoot his tol tol out for all i care.
tell them me that say that!
Excellent piece. The officer is a professional and he should have acted accordingly. He allowed his emotions to get the better of him.
it is really sad in dominica to see its only poor people children that gets the full length of the law,they are being sent to prison for petty crimes ,stealing,drugs,violence,most off them the system does not cater for,left school no jobs, tin-age pregnancy,and they find them selves in the wrong places and mixing with the wrong crowd ,the system punishes the down trodden people in society ,and that very same law which is to apply to all citizens these are people getting away of crimes ,pastor,prime minister,police,lawyers,priest,ministers of government,when it comes to law and order dominica is a total mess,when it comes to the law why does your position or your name protect you from prosecution,why must we inform the police on crimes when the white color crimes are not being prosecuted ,is it because dominca has no law and not even the constitution that’s why they get away ? well if that’s the case there will soon be lawlessness which the police will not be able to handle ,please people dominica she needs help
tin-age pregnancy LOLOLOLOL >>>>>>>really DUDE?? DNO SPELL CHECKER ON YOUR BLOG PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
I usually don’t kix off on peoples spelling but this one is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!ROTFLMFAO
“tin-age pregnancy”
but seriously. people like NICHOLAS ROBERTS should not be patrolling the streets. and exposing themselves for peoples underaged children.
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Corbette did not act in capacity of police he acted in to role of a parent. I agree with him 100% and I would do the same thing over and over it it was me.
did you see the investigators report
How do you know?
I love to listen to Angelo Alleyne on Q but i think he is exaggerating this story even trying to make the criminal look innocent. The guy was wrong to be on the school premises and Corbette’s reaction was plain parental instinct. Am sorry but i cant support the criminal or Angelo Alleyne on this one.
Angelo Allen…..not Alleyne
Corbette abused his power as a police and carbon is right but let us see if he will clean the dirty police force buy getting all them Drug dealers and high level criminals out.
Any parent faced with the same situation that Corbette experienced, would have done the same thing to protect his/her child. A man known to have a history of criminal record perusing a child. What if the father had not arrived at the opportune time, no one knows what could have happened to this child, and the reaction in here would be of a different tone. Some of you can criticize the man, but if you were in his shoes, you would have done anything to protect your child.
….but that is NOT what happened so your argument is no longer valid. If this was the case he shouldn’t even live to tell a story, however this is NOT what happened, not even REMOTELY close.
Tut tut…..tell us what happen nah, I want to know.
That policeman was longing to be trigger happy,he needs to be brought to court !!!
My people never cease to amaze me. All day long they are on the radio and the Internet talking about lack of respect for the law and the consitution. But here we have a case that needs to follow law and order and everyone got their undies in a bunch. The prevailing sentiment is that we should pat the shooter on the back and commend him for doing a great child because if it was our child we would do the same thing. Hmmmm!! I’m guessing 99% of the people blogging were not there and are only going on hearsay but they are holding strong to their belief that we should just pretend it never happened – inspite of the evidence presented by the investigating officer. Truly mind boggling!! Seems like it’s only the Hon. Prime Minister and his associates that are capable of wrong. SMH
dno supporters really quick to take sides. get the facts first and make informed comments.
one of the reasons were given why corbette should be charged criminally was the bullet exited the front of his leg, meaning the man was running away..he got shot from the back.
all that rake and fighting was made up..
let the court decide.
Here is the situation:
1. Any father would have reacted the way Corbette did in finding that situation.
2. However Corbette is a senior police officer and should know better than to shoot someone in the back.
3. The problem is that if it were anyone else he would be charged.
4. However Corbette is a government supporter hence the dilemna.
If however the DPP stated that he should be charged then the Attorney General should stay out of it because the reasons for getting involved is simply to protect on of their own.
While I would probably have taken the same action as Corbette, I say let the matter go to court and let a jury decide. I believe that he will be found not guilty and then everyone can be clear that the path of justice was followed.
So why would the attorney general be interested in perverting the course of justice in our country ? is this is becoming a pattern ?
The courts serve to protect all citizens in the land. Let Mr. Corbette have a fair trial and let a jury of his peers decide that he is innocent or guilty. If he is found innocent he would have been cleared of the stigma of shooting an assailant in the back. If found guilty then he will be punished for using excessive force and his criminal intent to kill or injure the victim.
why cant justice not be served for all? Is it that the attorney general has no confidence in the court system that he manages?
What a thing!
What a country,let us see what is the next step.
I hate to bring it up. But wasn’t it the same DPP who allowed the girl who murdered her two children to go to canada while on bail without prosecution. And now he wants to prosecute corbette for protecting his child. This DPP looks like he is anti child protection. The children are our future let’s protect them mr DPP.
thank you. where is the young lady now? in canada enjoying life but her kids are dead.Corbette did what any parent at first instinct would do. if it was i ,this chap would be dead. what the heck is wrong with that DPP eh? so u want them fellows to go around harassing and raping people kids?
this is about a mad man and a police officer. not aout the dpp, get real
We Now LIVE IN THE WILD WILD WEST
Look comess in Dominica. The now acting commissioner is now in an embarassing position. He has to find a way to pacify his political director while his investigation already condemned the political director’s mercenary and supporter.
Now why is levi peter grtting involved in this?
They better know whose child they messing with cause if is mine he gone including them people that fighting for his rights. Criminals should get no mercy! None
Let he who is without sin.
What rubbish is that? I wonder what would they do or say if the Nicholas character had raped the child.Tell dem people to think again before a revo start in Dominica.Leave Inspector Corbette alone.Too many of our little girls loose their innocence and nothing is done.Ok..what if the Inspector was not there on time? Boy look comess in Dominica.
I hope they do not charge anyone with the shooting incident in Pottersville over the weekend eh..Seems is who they want to charge they charging. That place is just a commess
First, the attorney General should be charged for trying in defiance of evidence to avert the natural course of justice.My second point is if they do charge him, it will be for intimidation as in the famous case in the north of the island.
We have to be a sick or sickened by politics to sit idly by and let this country gallop in a hand basket to the pits of hell and do nothing about it.
People time for action to get this rogue regime out
In time to come i wonder where the main witness will be. M.I.A. thats for sure.
What utter rubbish! Charge for wat protecting his child. We letting criminals know no matter wat they are above law abbiding citizens. Well is these things that bringing vigilante justice back!
Sak Wa Sort…Your name suit you so da- well…You are really a real Sot. You seem to have more evidence than anyone else,re what happened on that day.Yet still you are hiding behind a computer screen writing crap.
What you failed to recommend in all your ignorance was an advice to those responsible to build a place to house these mentally challenged men/women, and rehabilitate them. This is what level headed people do… If not these assaults will have no end… Can we shoot all these people dead? They are Dominicans also.
Did you know that police took an oath that a police is a brother to every other police, also the matter has been investigated by a signior police office who would most certainly not reccommend that his brother be charged if there was not sufficient evidence to do so, my opinion is that the guy who got shut was certainly loitering the compound, may have visited the bath room when the child saw him and got frightened, hence her scream, the father retaliated agressively and ignorantly by shooting the guy, for the police to justify his actions he came up with a bougos lie saying the guy attacked him with a rake, one must not forget that the police has been trained to do self diffence,in that case was that option considered? now we hearing that the man was shut behind his back.
The public should note that corbette family has been members of the labour party for over 30 years, is that among reasons why the AG is in opposition to the D P P not wanting to charge the police.
@ Sa Kwa Sot you should first find out the facts of the case before commenting. The matter had nothing to do with the policeman’s daughter. That was his excuse. Do your homework
my my my i’ll be dam
Some of them police believe they above the law and too bad. I got into a talk with mister a time and he talk about gun. So that’s how they are. “trigger happy” the police that say they raising their hand on me, my parents, sons, wife or any family member of mine I care for, I making history in D/A. Lennox Honey Church will have more history to book in the future.
I see you have it for the police, but I wonder what you would have done if you had met the same man in a toilet with your daughter at her school. I am not a policeman, but if I met you where the policeman met the man, I can tell you it would not have been easy for you.
If it was your child or family. This would be a different ball game.
Get the facts about the matter before commenting. It wasn’t about his child. It was about a purse the perpatrator had stolen and was running away. The child was used as an excuse.
Corbette your then prosecutor recommed that you should be charged criminally, well Corbette you better watch out the boy is top cop. He is now acting commissioner. I smell a rat!!!
which would charge the officer for shooting a child molester in the act and threatening him at the same time its time we grow up and stop that sort of foolishness….. acting like some girls who like gossip.. story story story that criminal got served point blank. MAN!
You only have the word of Lincoln Corbette, a man in a position of power. That should make you circumspect in your comments. You have no evidence to prove or disprove what Corbette claims.
you must have forgotten it was at a school the same song is being sung. A whole school cannot be wrong.
Right away you believe d police story….yess i
Sing the song: everything is upside down…sing…singg
I have said it before and I will say it again,the police force today, is like a Micky Mouse show. You appointed an Acting Chief Police, who recommended that a top ranking police be charged, the Attorney General has a problem with the charges. If he was to throw out the charges, dont you expect the Acting Chief of Police to react, knowing what he knows. You expect him to just sit by and accept the police in his ranks. Isn’t that going to cause more mayhem in the already disorganised police force. Again I ask,who is guarding the guards.
I thought the decision on whether to prosecute was based on what the evidence said? What else are they taking into consideration in making that decision?
yes man things happening
The Attorney General has nothing to do with that. If the evidence of the Police said that the individual should be charged and the DPP gave that advice, Then the individual must be charged and let the court of Law deal with his innocence or guilt.
The Attorney General must stay clear out of the Matter it is not for him to decide.
If what is being reported is true, then Mr Corbette must be charged, interdicted on half pay, Prosecuted before the court and jury. A competent Jury must decide his guilt ot innocense. A man is always innocent until proven guilty before a court of Law.
Is it possible that the Attorney General smell a RAT when ever the DPP is involved something is not right remember what BEHANZI was trying to explain to all of US we haven seen anything yet their is more to come abd becide we haven a fare Legal System and all of them must go even including Levi Peter.
any father in that situation would have reacted the same way or even worst,if it was me Roberts would not have lived
Any father, brother mother, nenen,passerby should defend a child in that situation, if ONLY that was what happened! However Corbette told a fible and tried hard to manipulate the system and intimidate investigating officers. A man is being investigated, but he all over the case?
What’s a fible?
pure BS, the law applys to every one if it was a civilian they would have been charge already and jailed. shotting a man behind his back? that’s just coward and bad mind. Charge him i say!
Look out Dominicans things happens in bunches,and i suspect we are going to have a few heads rolling soon. Pray!PRAY!PRAY! for deliverance.
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