Cecil Skeete, better known as Squeeze, was an informant working with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith to take down a group of people who wanted to remove him from office. This is the claim of the Commissioner who presented text messages between himself and Skeete today at the Police Media Briefing. Skeete was killed in Cocorite near his home on Sunday night.

Griffith said the network included corrupt officers and media practitioners, who offered to pay Skeete $50 000. Skeete had requested audio surveillance equipment before his death after a meeting had been set up between him and some of the officers.

He also slammed the Trinidad Express for allegedly implicating him in a plot to kill Skeete.

According to Griffith: “The police intend to launch a thorough investigation on the reports made by Skeete on police officers and members of the media, which was formed to undermine and bring down a certain Commissioner of Police. If these individuals in any way were instrumental in calling a hit on Mr Skeete in order to cover their tracks it will be exposed.”

He added that even a member of the media had been named as someone who received financial remittance for their services to bring him down. Griffith ended the conference as Batman, which was a reference to one of the texts he reportedly received from Skeete