Senior cop freed on charge of threatening to kill

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday dismissed a charge of threatening language against a police officer for Want of Prosecution. Twenty-nine-year-old Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Frank Thompson, of Lot 154 Back Street, Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, was charged with using threatening language against Hemchand Budhai.

The magistrate dismissed the matter citing Budhai’s failure to report to court when the matter was called.

It is alleged that on February 22, last, at Broad Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, ASP Thompson threatened Hemchand Budhai. It was further alleged that on the same day in question he used abusive language towards Police Constable Leandre Gillis.

The senior rank is on bail after denying both allegations. According to reports, on the day in question, Constable Gillis was on patrol duties at Broad Street, Charlestown, when he was stopped by Hemchand Budhai, who reported to him that ASP Thompson’s vehicle had crashed into his vehicle which at the time had occupants.

It is alleged that ASP Thompson upon seeing Budhai approaching him, started to use a series of indecent expressions and threatened to kill him and the other occupants in the vehicle.

The court further heard that after Constable Gillis told Thompson of the allegation made by Budhai, Thompson then asked the junior rank, “What the (expletive) you gon’ do about it?”

According to reports, when being questioned by the junior rank with regard to the accident in which he was involved, the senior rank, who appeared to be intoxicated, apparently became abusive toward Budhai and the Police Constable.

The ASP, who was subsequently requested by the junior rank to drive to the nearest police station, turned to the junior rank, who found himself at the end of ASP’s verbal onslaught. “You know me? Eh? Find out ‘bout me. If me had it me way, you won’t be a (expletive) recruit…Find out ‘bout me. Call ‘A’ Division. I would murder you (expletive) on the ground hey,” he allegedly exclaimed.

In a video of the episode that was circulated on social media, the junior rank was heard pleading with the senior rank to desist from such actions; he however continued. The matter of abusive language against the Police Constable is ongoing before Senior Magistrate Dylon Bess in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

(KAIETEUR NEWS)

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