Former cop acquitted of charges for stealing $175,000 in fuel

Leroy Kerr

And the Chief Magistrate heard the preliminary inquiry in the case of twenty six year old Leroy Kerr, a former police officer. Kerr was accused of stealing one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars worth of fuel from the government between the period of November of 2006 and April of 2007. The allegations were that Kerr would visit the Shell One Stop gas station with a police requisition form and get fuel that would be pumped into a private vehicle. The Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie found that there was no evidence against the former cop and the charge of theft was dismissed. That’s because after carefully perusing close to five hundred statements tendered in evidence, McKenzie found that the charge could not be proved for the matter to proceed to trial in the Supreme Court. Among the statements tendered into evidence was that of then Assistant Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies and his then deputy, Allen Whylie, as well as from members of the police department’s accounting team.