TOP level Barbadian investigators last night interrogated three police officers in connection with the alleged rape and sexual assault of a Jamaican woman while she was in custody.
The 27-year-old woman who is from Spanish Town, St Catherine, was arrested at the Grantley Adams airport in late February after about two kilogrammes of marijuana were found in her luggage.
She was taken to the Central Police Station where the incident reportedly occurred.
The woman claims a female officer let two male cops in her cell during her first night in custody and she was raped and sexually assaulted by the two cops who subjected her to taunts and inhumane treatment.
The alleged rape victim has since been remanded to the HMP Dodds facility in St Phillip and is awaiting her trial.
Efforts to contact Assistant Superintendent Curvan Harvey of the Royal Barbados Police Force proved futile.
The interrogation comes a day after British actress Heather Heath blasted the Barbados police for their handling of a case in which she was savagely attacked in her Barbados home by a serial rapist.
Heath claimed the police failed to warn the public about the string of attacks — saying they were only concerned with the country's image.
She also complained that a statement taken from her was 'barely literate'.
Last month, Shanique Myrie, a Jamaican woman who travelled to the eastern Caribbean island, complained that she was finger raped and subjected to humiliating treatment by Barbadian officials before being booted out of the country.
Days later three men who went to the island to promote an artiste and to negotiate Reggae singer Junior Reid's appearance on the Reggae on the Hill concert, also claimed they were beaten, locked up and booted out of the country even though had satisfied all of the island's entry requirements.
The Myrie incident drew cries of condemnation from a wide cross-section of society and prompted government to government dialogue between the two countries.
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