Capleton says his rape accuser is a blatant liar and police officers should investigate her.

Reggae/dancehall legend Capleton is currently behind confined following his arrest on Fri. The 51-year-old deejay, born Clifton Bailey, was charged with rape sending stupor-waves throughout the Jamaican amusement fraternity. Capleton has denied the allegations saying that the female accuser is lying and result tried to extort him. The "Rocky Road" disk even filed a police report about the alleged extortion.

Capleton'due south manager Claudette Kemp backed up what the deejay told police officers. "Demands were existence made on the artist and he decided to brand a written report to the constabulary, he did just that," Kemp said. "Information technology was communicated to this person who was making the demand that he was going to study it to the police. So they went and made the report to CISOCA, which is a different office from where he made the report, so then the attorney was communication of a question and reply and he communicated that to us. Then we were prepared for that process and we went in that location base on instruction given to get to the One-half Manner Tree police station."

Capleton was questioned in the presence of his attorney Christopher Townsend and that's when he was arrested and charged. Townsend chastised the police department yesterday accusing them of not thoroughly investigating the matter before pressing charges confronting the artist. Capleton's chaser says they have several Whatsapp messages and voice notes equally evidence of the attempted extortion and investigators are aware of that.

Townsend pointed out that Capleton's accuser told police force officers that she went to the hotel to groom the creative person'due south hair, nevertheless, Capleton wears dreadlocks which punch a hole in her story. The artist's people are telling the states that his accuser is only doing this to embarrass him considering he is a famous singer.

Capleton has his first court hearing in Kingston on Monday where his lawyer is expected to utilize for bail.