Rommel Akeem Cummins told a High Court on Wednesday that he only confessed to murdering Dave Archer after being beaten and tortured by police officers.In an unsworn statement which he gave from the dock of the No. 3 Supreme Court, he said he admitted to killing Archer to avoid being beaten again.Cummins, 30, of Vauxhall No. 2, Christ Church, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Archer on June 10, 2019. Archer, a former security guard on the MV DreamChaser, was gunned down while on the party vessel.Cummins alleged that lead investigator Sergeant Michael Ifill and five other police officers who he did not know by name took him into a room and tortured him to give the confession, which he eventually did on June 13, 2019.
