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Taxi driver Eugene I. Harrigan claims police misinformed media
However, speaking exclusively to our newsroom today Thursday May 3, 2018, the victim, taxi driver Eugene I. Harrigan, gave a different take on what happened that day.
He said, “the incident happened at the exit of the Tortola Pier Park late at night when two men came up to me with Jamaican accents and demanded money.”
The victim added that he told the two men, whose faces were not covered “but had on black hats”, that he had “no money” but they instead pulled him out of the vehicle.
I was never stabbed, just cut- Harrigan
Mr Harrigan claimed that once out the vehicle he had a scuffle with one of the robbers and suffered cuts from the knife that the man had, but he was “never stabbed.”
He told our newsroom that while out of the car the other man seemed to have known where he kept the money and “went straight for the money and ran away.” Mr Harrigan confirmed he went to Peebles Hospital where he received stitches for the two small cuts sustained.
The taxi driver said he knows “it was a set up and have given police all the leads” but claimed “the police have done nothing weeks after.”
Mr Harrigan did not disclose the amount of money taken, but said one of the persons involved, in what he described as a "set up robbery", has since left the Virgin Islands.
Our newsroom was the only media that did not publish the police press release issued April 10, 2018.
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The taxi driver said he knows “it was a set up and have given police all the leads” but claimed “the police have done nothing weeks after.”