Police last night declined to comment on claims that information had been ignored about a possible suspect in the Marcus Gibbings murder investigation.

The claim was made by Mr. Gibbing’s father, Richard, who also hit out at the “unsatisfactory conduct” of the Police inquiry.

Asked for a response to the allegations, detailed in yesterday’s Royal Gazette, a Bermuda Police spokesman directed calls to Public Safety Minister David Burch. “We have no comment,” he added.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Burch has already said she could not comment specifically on the investigation.

But she said the Minister had been “assured that all that can be done is being done by the Bermuda Police Service to ensure that justice is served”.

Police last week promised a thorough investigation, but confirmed that no suspects had been generated.

Mr. Gibbings’ father also appealed to the Government of his native Trinidad and Tobago for help. He wrote a letter to Senator Arnold Piggott, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Trinidad and Tobago, stating that the Gibbings family was not satisfied with the conduct of the investigation.

He called on Sen. Piggott to “use your good offices to bring to the attention of the Bermuda authorities our collective concern at the unsatisfactory conduct of the investigation into Marcus’s death”.

Attempts to contact Sen. Piggott yesterday to ask if he had received the letter, and if so what action the Trinidad and Tobago Government planned to take, were unsuccessful yesterday.