A police constable on Wednesday told a court that he had been confronted with the allegation that he had been involved in the attack on newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon in which he was doused with faeces.
Constable Kerry Joseph was at the time under cross-examination at the continuing trial of the three men charged with the attack on Kissoon.
PPP members Kwame McCoy and Jason Abdulla and former bodyguard Shawn Hinds are on trial before Magistrate Judy Latchman for assaulting Kissoon.
Joseph, under cross-examination by attorney Glenn Hanoman, stated that he was never charged for the crime although the allegation was put to him by an Inspector.
He had previously testified that an allegation was made against him by Abdulla, who gave a statement to the police in which he identified him as being the driver of the vehicle that transported the now deceased Osmond Griffith to throw faeces in Kissoon’s face. He denied the allegation.
Joseph on Wednesday also testified that the licence plate for his vehicle is not unusually shaped like the one that newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon described as belonging to a vehicle used in the 2010 attack, in which he was doused with faeces.
Constable Joseph, who began giving evidence on September 17, continued his testimony under guidance by Police Prosecutor Shawn Gonsalves and told the court that the licence plate on his vehicle had standard writing and is shaped like most other licence plates.
Kissoon, during his testimony, had told the court that the licence plate of the vehicle that was used in the attack had a unique shape.
During the cross-examination by attorney George Thomas, the court heard that the vehicle allegedly used in the attack was dark blue.
Constable Keron Pickering, who is stationed at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and attached to the major crime unit, also testified. He gave evidence as it related to injuries allegedly sustained by Abdulla at the hands of police officers at CID.
The matter was then adjourned to October 27, when further evidence will be presented and both Joseph and Pickering will be cross-examined by attorney Latchmie Rahamat.
