Well over a month after the death of Senior Superintendent of Police Dathan (Duffy) Henry,the Jamaica constabulary force (JCF) has failed to tell the country what was the cause of his death.

The last thing we heard from the police was that they were await­ing the result of the tox­i­col­o­gy test with a view to deter­min­ing whether Senior Superintendent Henry was indeed poi­soned, as the street believe.

Senior Superintendent Dathan (Duffy) Henry

As I first blogged, I received word that SSP Henry died on or around May 6^th, of this year, since then, rumours have been swirling that mis­ter Henry was poisoned.

I have no evi­dence which would ver­i­fy or dis­prove this rumor, but the police seem to believe that there may be some­thing to it, or that he may have died oth­er than a nat­ur­al death due to the fact that the coro­ner ruled the cause of death incon­clu­sive.

In the sec­ond blog I wrote on the death of my friend ‚I also ques­tioned the med­ical fra­ter­ni­ty . I won­dered whether that sec­tor let Dathan Henry down by fail­ing to diag­nose his con­di­tion on the one hand, or fail­ing to tell his fam­i­ly that they are unable to diag­nose him pro­fes­sion­al­ly and advise them to get him the help he need­ed in a time­ly and expe­di­tious man­ner, which could have pro­duced a dif­fer­ent result.

I also out­lined some things the police could be doing as they await the lab reports. I went on to opine that the longer it took to nab a sus­pect in a crime, the more like­ly it is that no one will be held account­able for that crime.

I am con­ver­sant that until the police receive the tox­i­col­o­gy report they will argue that they are unable to com­mence a homi­cide investigation.

On this par­tic­u­lar point I humbly dis­agree, what if the tox­i­col­o­gy report indi­cate there are no traces of tox­ins in his body , does that rule out poi­son­ing as a cause of death?

The answer is NO!

Today there are numer­ous types of tox­ins and phar­ma­c­ti­cal drugs which are almost impos­si­ble to detect even in the most sophis­ti­cat­ed crime labs in devel­oped coun­tries like the United States , Canada , and oth­er devel­oped countries.

As such ‚the police must com­mence and con­duct a vig­or­ous homi­cide inves­ti­ga­tion irre­spec­tive of what the tox­i­col­o­gy report says.

Too many Jamaicans have been mur­dered and no one held account­able for their deaths, some­times due to absence of evi­dence, intim­i­da­tion of wit­ness­es, lack of inves­tiga­tive skills and or will, and a res­ig­na­tion to the fact that the per­son is already gone and so every­one moves on.

If we are to change the cul­ture that is the norm in Jamaica, the police must do the nec­es­sary work to bring the killer/​killers of Dathan Henry to Justice if he was indeed murdered.

Where there is smoke there is fire, peo­ple on the streets are say­ing SSP Henry was mur­dered, it is up to the police to ensure that if this is true that his killer is brought to jus­tice, even it means they have to arrest one of their own.