One of two quar­ry op­er­a­tors be­ing linked to the al­leged death threats is­sued to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has come out fight­ing back.

In a brief tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day with Guardian Me­dia, the quar­ry op­er­a­tor, when told his name was be­ing bandied about in the Sturge’s To­co/San­gre Grande con­stituen­cy as be­ing one of the men be­hind the al­leged threats, he calm­ly re­spond­ed, “I don’t know any­thing about that. I don’t even know much. I hear­ing about the al­le­ga­tions but I don’t know what about that.”

On Mon­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar claimed threats against Sturge were ex­pect­ed due to the “much-need­ed ag­gres­sive polic­ing ac­tion” to root out gang ac­tiv­i­ty over the past month.