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DJ marked for death, Rajaee both knew ex-Govt official
By By Asha Javeed
asha.javeed@trinidadexpress.comStory Created: Dec 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM ECT
Story Updated: Dec 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM ECT
Radio DJ Kevaughn “Lurbz” Savory was possibly saved from being a statistic.
But the question he’s being constantly asked now is: who would want you killed?
One week after police uncovered an alleged plot to kill him and swiftly charged six people, including ex-LifeSport co-ordinator Rajaee Ali, 27-year-old Savory sat down for an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express yesterday.
Ali was detained by police shortly after the murder of former senior counsel Dana Seetahal seven months ago. He also had a charge of possession of wild meat.
He had told the Sunday Express he did not kill Dana Seetahal.
What did Ali, a member of the Carapo Jamaat Al-Muslimeen and Savory have in common?
On the surface, nothing.
Ali sometimes leads the jumah prayers at the Carapo mosque on a
Friday while Savory hosts boat parties.
So whom did they have in common?
The Sunday Express understands a former Government official was an associate of both men.
But who ordered the alleged “hit” and why?
Savory admitted he was scared because he could not identify a motive and the police never disclosed exactly why he was wanted dead.
Savory said he had just finished his shift at SLAM 100.5FM on November 27 when he was escorted by police to their Port of Spain headquarters and informed of the “hit” placed on his head.
Last Thursday, Ali was charged with being a gang leader. He and five others—Keshorn Dempster; Brent La Croix; Brandon Borneo; his wife, Donna Dyer; and his brother, Ishmael—were all charged with being members of an unnamed gang.
The group was also jointly charged with conspiring to murder Savory and with assisting a gang member in the commission of a gang-related act by possessing a gun and ammunition.
Savory, who hasn’t given pause to his busy party schedule despite the public scrutiny which he’s come under since the alleged plot was made public, says it could have been a “grudge” hit.
The only thing that came to mind was a sex video with himself and his ex-girlfriend, who is related to the ex-Government official, which is still in his possession.
He considers it a “nuclear bomb”.
He described his ex-girlfriend as his “realest” relationship and the longest, having lasted two and a half years.
He said he met her when she was 18 and he was studying journalism and public relations at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT).
“We were very public together,” he said.
Apart from two of his trusted friends, to whom he showed the video, he said the whole of Synergy Television (where he hosts a programme) saw it in March of this year.
“Here’s the weird thing about it. The whole of Synergy saw the video because I jacked in the phone to charge it and a picture thing came up. And I left and I went out and come back and people were like, ‘You’re genuine boy. We see everything.’ People know this video existed,” he said.
Asked by the Sunday Express why he kept a video of his ex-girlfriend, who is now married, he responded:
“Why did you keep the video?” he repeated. “I am a very funny person and a hoarder of pictures. Not for the content on it but the properties on it, for the date and time.”
The date and timestamp on the video, he said, is his ticket to show that he’s not the father of his ex-girlfriend’s child.
“Look how this played off. If I didn’t have the video and if I didn’t understand the date and time of the video timeframe of the video, people would have bawled that it was a recent video,” he said.
“That child is not my child. It’s an innocent child. When the child grow up, when it comes to the public, you will see it’s not my child. It’s an innocent child. Leave the child out of it. You could continue to make all your memes pertaining to me, the mother and father, but leave the child out of it,” he said.
He added: “That was personal. I was never broadcasting it. People didn’t know I had it. It’s either they recovered it or somebody must have recorded it off the computer. It wasn’t kept for me to watch over and use against them. That was never my intentions. I just have the video.”
For Savory, there was no profit in the video except ego.
“I was going through my phone. I am a hoarder for pictures so I am going through my phone and scrolling up to see what I did because the pictures are date and timestamped. I didn’t do anything to any girl; I have been in a steady place,” he said.
Asked if he was aware the video was possibly being used as blackmail, he responded:
“The blackmail thing is a whole new thing to me. Everything now, between last week and now, everything is new. It’s nothing that I knew or expected. This popped out of nowhere so, all the blackmailing,” he said.
Savory is straightforward.
He readily admits to being an employee who can test a manager’s limits and bend the rules as much as he can without breaking them.
At Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) where he had once worked as a cameraman, he admitted to crashing cars and falling asleep on the job.
But it’s his raw talent and deter-mination—racing to the scene of a burning fire on Charlotte Street or climbing to the top of an unfinished building to get “that” shot which compensated for the carelessness.
“I give trouble. Real trouble,” he admitted with a laugh.
Not surprisingly, his recklessness led him to death’s door once before.
In September 2009, he was in an accident close to the Besson Street Police Station which nearly left him paralysed.
But by November, he cut off the casts and made a trip to the church at Mount St Benedict, determined to turn his life around.
Savory then went to Synergy Television where he worked as a cameraman and as DJ.
“That’s when my whole career started because that’s when I started to take life seriously. I told myself, let’s do this. I survived for a reason and I said, let’s make something of myself,” he said.
Savory’s story has made him a social media and meme sensation.
And it’s not something he prepared to run away from.
Instead, he actually laughs about it.
“The events that will come out of this I have no control over, I can’t tell people what to do, what to post, what to say. I know what took place, I know what is in my heart and it’s clean and pure, and I just glad it didn’t happen on that day. I am just glad I survived to tell the story.
I had nothing to do with it. I didn’t even know it could be a video motive. I had no idea. I was just living my life,” he said.
