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“I must admit as a mother that within the last few months,
I observed that Dave’s behaviour has been strange,”
a cautious Belfon said during an interview at her home.
She noted that in a strange way, PC Belfon had taken to walking
with his Bible and preaching.
“I saw this (trouble) coming,” she stated of recent
events, “but we have not been on speaking terms for some time
now, so I couldn’t approach him.
“I couldn’t tell him he needed to see a doctor.”
But she said that although her son wasn’t speaking to her,
as a mother she became worried.
Ma Belfon disclosed that she recently visited her lawyer and told
him: “Should my son kill anyone, I would take action against
the Police Service.
“I promised the lawyer that I would sue the Police Service,
because despite the bad signals he was sending they refused to look
after him.
“I just knew something would have happened to him.”
Without pronouncing upon him, she told Mirror that she would never
push her hand in fire for “no child”.
She said she was raised and in turn raised all her nine children
on the old adage that “if you wasn’t dey, your name
couldn’t call.
“Is my child, but I’ve put everything in the hands of
God.
“If he did it he would pay, if not, he will walk free, but
one thing I could tell you is that I’m not losing sleep over
it.
“Right now I’m sleeping and eating comfortably and I
know for sure I am not mortgaging my house for any stupidness.”
She said she spent six years in the USA working her fingers off
to build her home.
“I work too hard to bring up all my children,” Ma Belfon
deadpanned.
Ma Belfon is yet to look for her son since he was sent to prison
after being denied bail, and doesn’t know if she ever will.
“Right now I know I’m not going in the jail to look
for him, or to any court hearing; I can’t take the drama,”
she stated.
She felt things would have been different if they had a good mother/son
relationship.
“But I was having my own problems with him,” she repeated.
“He wasn’t going to listen to me anyway if I had told
him he needed help.
“His superiors were the best ones to pull him in and order
him to have a medical evaluation done.”
Ma Belfon further reiterated that there were obvious signs that
all was not well with her son and said some of his colleagues did
observe his “out of sorts behaviour”, especially the
way he conducted himself while in uniform.
“Tell me,” she went on, “what policeman in his
right mind would go in front of the Treasury Building every day,
dressed in full uniform, with Bible in hand and preach?
“What officer, when his colleagues try to remove him from
the eyes of the curious public, would become so abusive that they
would just leave him alone?
“What policeman in his right mind will give an interview to
TV6 about a vision he had while dressed in his uniform?
“Wasn’t that enough to send him for some kind of help?”
She added: “That boy was preaching night and day, always with
a Bible in hand, but, to me, nothing he was saying was really coherent.
“As a believer, I’ve heard him preaching at home and
the things he said didn’t sound as if it was coming from God;
it was more sounding as if it was coming from Satan.
“I remembered Jim Jones, he was a preacher and look what he
did.
“I am telling you, Satan is around and taking our children.”
She said a police officer admitted to her that it was against the
law for cops to preach on street corners in uniform, yet they didn’t
discipline him.
“Dave was showing too many signs,” she moaned.
She said even his personal life seemed to be in turmoil.
“No man has a right to have six and seven women,” she
further deadpanned.
“Woman going to do for you when you hurt them; woman wouldn’t
give you money just so and don’t want something in return.”
She questioned again: “What man will ask one girlfriend to
marry him and tell another of his girlfriends to be his mother giver?
“What man will put up his wedding banns for the second time
and the bride-to-be knows nothing about it?
“Something was not right, and as a mother I noticed it but
I couldn’t help him.”
She also spoke about the day he was armed with his Bible on his
way to work and passed her straight in her yard.
“I called out to him telling him that I was his mother,”
she recalled.
“I also told him he was holding a Bible in his hand and preaching,
yet he refused to tell me good morning.”
PC Belfon never responded.
Ma Belfon insisted: “His senior officers were the best ones
to order him to seek medical attention.
“They should have been more careful because he was a man who
carried a gun.
“His signals weren’t good and they should have acted
quickly.
“Look how the entire Police Service has been embarrassed by
the allegations of kidnapping by one of their own.”
Ma Belfon said in the past she often defended police officers.
“I felt not because there was one rotten egg in the Service,
all will be bad ones,” she stated.
“I didn’t know this scourge would have reached me, too.”
She chided: “But he’s a big man and responsible for
all his actions.”
She recalled a friend who was killed by her own son.
“I remember when that boy was young and people went to her
to complain how she never listened to them and became annoyed,”
she recalled.
“She’s dead now and he’s in prison.”
Ma Belfon said she always acted differently with her children.
“I used to beat them to make sure they grew up right,”
she stated.
“So I was naturally disappointed when cops came with a warrant
to my home to search following his arrest.
“I always felt Dave was an exemplary police officer.
“He never thief 10 cents from me as a child; he never took
what was never his.
“I don’t know what went wrong.”
She said she knew Satan was roaming and felt that if he ever had
to come to her home it would be for someone else.
“Not Dave,” she added, “I know my children, but
Satan is such a busy man and I pray to God to have his own way in
this matter.” |
