Bar owner Freeman Fordyce has been freed of a charge of assaulting a policeman after the lawman in question failed to show up at the court hearings.
City magistrate Dylon Bess dismissed two charges against Fordyce, who is the owner of the Diamond Bar and a pawnbroker, yesterday due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
The first charge stated that on November 9th, 2018, at George Street, Werk-en-Rust, he assaulted Prem Narine, a police inspector in the Guyana Police Force. The second charge alleged that Fordyce, on the same date, behaved disorderly in a public place. Fordyce had denied both charges when they were first read to him by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in December of last year.