Cop says gang’s driver was not under investigation

A police inspector yesterday testified that although the police knew about the personal driver for reputed One Don Gang leader Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, he was never under investigation.

The witness, during his testimony yesterday in the ongoing Clansman-One Don Gang trial, testified that the driver had contacted him by phone and that they later had a meeting at which he gave him certain advice. The inspector testified that at the time he did not know the man but had information that he was Bryan's driver. The prosecutor then asked the witness if the driver was being investigated.

"I wouldn't put it that way but he is someone I would want to know," he said.

"Why you would want to know him. I don't understand. Is he a Sunday school teacher?" Chief Justice Bryan Sykes interjected. The inspector replied that he was told that the individual was the driver for the reputed gang leader.

The driver, who is one of the prosecution's two star witnesses, had testified that he had reached out to the inspector to give him information about the criminal enterprise as he wanted to stop the gang. The witness who claimed that he was forced into the gang and that Bryan had told him that the only way out was prison or the graveyard. He said that he met with the inspector who advised him to go to the "bigger heads" but that he got fearful and backed out.

The alleged ex-gangster, besides detailing several murders and shootings which he claimed he was involved in with the gang, disclosed that he was a top-tier member of the gang and a community don but had never fired a gun or killed or injured anyone.

However, another inspector, who led the gang investigation previously told the court that he was unable to say why the witness was never charged as the decision to not prosecute him was taken at "another level".

The trial continues today in the Home Circuit Court .