Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) of fur­ther erod­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence in the jus­tice sys­tem amid con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter.

Speak­ing on the is­sue yes­ter­day, Gon­za­les crit­i­cised Criston J Williams, the at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing the Sama­roo fam­i­ly, for urg­ing cit­i­zens to “trust the process” de­spite wide­spread pub­lic scruti­ny over the po­lice han­dling of the mat­ter.

He de­scribed Williams’ calls for cit­i­zens to trust the process in the face of wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed CCTV footage as an in­sult to the pop­u­la­tion.