Premier Alex Scott said he would reopen the case of dead prisoner Steven (Pepe) Dill if any new information comes to light.

The Premier made his remarks after Shadow Home Affairs Minister Maxwell Burgess gave an ?impassioned? speech during the Motion to Adjourn in the House of Assembly last Friday about what he called Government?s neglect to Mr. Dill?s family.

Speaking of Steven (Pepe) Dill, who died in Ferry Reach in December, 2001 after suffering an asthma attack, Mr. Burgess said Mr. Dill?s children had been left in the cold for four-and-a-half years because no one had been brought to justice.

An Inquest in 2003 concluded the death of Mr. Dill ? a father-of-two and self-employed plumber ? was preventable.

?Pepe Dill?s children are being denied justice here,? Mr. Burgess said. ?It could be my or your children next. You know it?s wrong. I have never been more embarrassed by any decision made by any Government in my lifetime. It?s morally wrong.?

Mr. Dill died at the Prison Farm in St. George?s two months before his expected release.

?I feel the pain and agony and frustration in a family like Pepe Dill,? Mr. Burgess said. ?I can?t understand when you review the facts around death of Mr. Dill you don?t conclude Government had a role in it.?

Mr. Burgess said Government had a responsibility to Mr. Dill?s family to ensure his children were taken care of.

?Any black man who has struggled and understands struggle say, ?There but for the grace of God go I,?? he said. ?I expect they will get a call. Anything short of that is unacceptable, sad and it reeks of a bygone time.?

He said he did not know Mr. Dill?s family and did not have to know them because what happened was morally wrong.

?He had no reason to believe he would die because he suffered from asthma. No person with an ounce of morality would allow what?s happening to happen.?

Mr. Burgess wanted to be a step apart from anything to do with the denial of children.

?We reek of bankruptcy in the area of morality when we set out that way,? he said. ?As Spike Lee says, ?Do the right thing,? or in this case do the moral thing. Because the right thing to do can?t be to conclude how they should be just left.?

Premier Alex Scott said Mr. Burgess?s ?impassioned? speech implied he had overlooked some facts but he admitted he had been off the Island for a few days in Washington D.C.

?I am prepared to take steps to ensure that if any new information has come to light that warrants a review of the Dill case I am prepared to do so,? Mr. Scott said.