The Senator refused to participate when the Privileges and Procedures Committee president Derek Gray told him that the meeting was to be held in private. The Senator said: ‘In that case I will not participate.’ Mr Gray, the Constable of St Clement, said the committee would continue anyway. They are expected to publish a report before the end of this week on whether the Senator breached the States Members’ code of conduct in his letter to property developer Richard Brocken. Before the Health Minister left the room, Privileges member St Clement Deputy Gerard Baudains asked him: ‘Are you ill, Senator?’. Senator Syvret replied: ‘No, I am fine thank you.’ Just before that exchange, the Senator had read out a prepared statement attacking the committee for deciding to hold the proceedings in secret and for denying him his human rights.
Jersey Evening Post
