Shop assistant says she never spoke to newspaper

The Police and the Ministry of Human Development have not indicated any intention to pursue the matter legally. The police have decided however to fast track a media policy which will cover such issues. In a footnote to our coverage yesterday about the discrepancy between the eye-witness accounts on television and in the newspapers we were able today to contact Dina Hernandez, the assistant in Arthur Sewell’s shop. While the Reporter‘s article and their publisher Harry Lawrence says she was an eyewitness who spoke to them, Hernandez insists she never spoke to anyone from any media house except Channel Seven. In fact she says on that Monday afternoon, she was inside the store when the incident on the street occurred and only knows what Sewell told her.

Dina Hernandez, Store Assistant

“I was inside the store and he came in and told me that they just tried to take a little girl but I didn’t see anything. No one from the press came to talk to me. Only the grandmother and the mother came to see me. But nobody from the press.”

Up to News time tonight, News Five was unable to contact the writer of the story Gary Ayuso for comment. We were told he was out for the day.