A bus conductor, who is accused of damaging a windscreen of a Guyana Police Force vehicle while resisting arrest, yesterday said that the damage occurred when an officer kicked him.
“All I coulda do, My Worship, was fall back on the screen,” Dexroy Smart, of Leopold Street, who was charged with unlawful and malicious damage to property, told Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
He was granted bail in the sum of $100,000 after he offered the court an explanation of the charge.
According to the prosecution, on the April 23, Smart damaged the window screen, valued $120,000, while resisting arrest.
The prosecutor told the court that Smart was seen “touting” and while the police were arresting him and placing him in their van, he resisted and damaged the window screen.
But Smart told the court that the police just came up to him and snatched him and threw him in the van.
When asked by the magistrate how the windscreen got damaged, he told the court,
“One of them officers kick me and that’s how I get into the window screen….”
While the prosecutor objected to bail, it was overruled by the magistrate.
The matter was then transferred to Court Ten for May 30, when it will be called for reports and fixtures.
