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Suva, Fiji-After facing unprecedented demands to find the killers of John Scott and his partner, Greg Scrivener, police here have identified two men as prime suspects, one a
former policeman, the other, a reputed marijuana salesman.
The dismembered bodies of Scott, the Fiji Red Cross director and Scrivener, his New Zealand-born partner, were found Sunday by an assistant who lived downstairs. Scott's
heroism during a national kidnapping crisis at Fiji's House of Parliament had endeared
the openly-gay man to his countrymen. He had also crusaded to maintain Fiji's under-attack constitutional protections currently afforded to gay men and lesbians. |
 Greg Scrivener and his partner, John Scott, were found murdered in Fiji last Sunday. Two suspects have been identified by police. |
Both Scott and Scrivener had been brutally stabbed and chopped with a cane knife, their heads severed by an assailant or assailants. Scrivener's hand had been chopped off, as
had Scott's finger. The suspected former policemen, according to witnesses, had been seen with Scott at a McDonald's the night before the murder.
 John Scott |
Greg Scrivener's sister, Janice Giles, has advanced the theory that her brother's death had been the result of political shenanigans. She speculated that Scott, who had been granted entry into the kidnappers' lair during the parliament's crisis, might be called to testify against them.
Officials are denying that this could have been the case. Scott, they claim, did not wish to
testify, fearing he would thereby compromise the neutrality of the Red Cross. |
The policeman-suspect, reportedly, has a girlfriend. Fiji's newspapers, however, are claiming that he is bisexual, thus somehow linking him to the murdered gay men. The
suspect's girlfriend, however, claims that he'd been with her the night the killings took place.
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