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Published:Friday | February 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM
The right sign! - Yesterday The Gleaner published a directional sign at the intersection of Hagley Park and Eastwood Park roads in St Andrew. The sign, which contained the misspellings 'RORD' and 'RAOD', has since been changed to properly reflect the names of the two roads. PHEW! - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer

Cops probe rape claim against own

The National Organisation of Women said yesterday it was appalled and disgusted by the alleged gang rape of a young dancer by five policemen in St Catherine Wednesday night.

"That police officers who have sworn to uphold the law and to protect the citizens of Jamaica should have been involved in the gang rape of a young woman is unforgivable and these men must be severely dealt with," the organisation said in a release yesterday.

"This is one of the worst cases of sexual abuse that Jamaica has seen for a long time."

Karl Angell, communications director in the Office of the Commissioner of Police, told The Gleaner last night that the five policemen accused of being involved have been taken off front-line duty pending investigations.

Brady to face the court on March 25

Harold Brady, the attorney at the centre of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair, yesterday appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to a charge of breaching the Commissions of Enquiry Act.

The charge arose from his refusal to testify at the commission of enquiry probing the hiring of the United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to block the extradition of alleged crime lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

Brady is being represented by a four-member legal team led by attorney George Soutar.

March 25 has been set as the next mention date.

If Brady is found to be in the wrong, he may be fined a maximum $500.