Barbados police crack 7-year cop killing case

The Barbados police believe they have cracked the seven-year case of the shooting death of a police constable.



The Nation newspaper has reported that police detectives have arrested a man in connection with the death of Constable Dexter Yarde, who was shot with a semi-automatic pistol at West Coast Villa in August 2004.



Yarde, who was also a member of the Serious Crime Unit, was on patrol with another constable when they were called to respond to a burglary at a beachfront villa.



As the officers pursued a man who was hiding under a shrub on the beach, Yarde was shot.



A few days later, then acting commissioner of police, Bertie Hinds, reported that the young constable had died from a police bullet from a Glock pistol.



But four years later, Coroner Faith Marshall-Harris ruled that Yarde did not die from friendly fire.