Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Slowe yesterday pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual assault after the magistrate’s court ruled that his matters will be handled summarily and not indictably.
According to a release from the Guyana Police Force, Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus dismissed submissions made by an associate from Hughes, Fields & Stoby in the case of the Police vs. Paul Slowe.
The release said that Senior Police Legal Advisor Mandel Moore appeared on behalf of the prosecution.
After reviewing written submissions made on behalf of the Prosecution and the Defence, the release said that the Chief Magistrate ruled in favour of the Prosecution that all three of the sexual assault cases instituted against Slowe will proceed summarily as opposed to indictably which was the argument advanced by the defence.
The three charges were then read to Slowe and he pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
The matters were then adjourned to the 21st day of December, 2023, for report.
On the 15th day of October 2021, Slowe appeared before Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 3, where the charges were read to him and he was not required to plead to the three charges.
The Magistrate released the accused on seventy-five thousand dollars bail on each count.
It is alleged that on March 26, 2019, at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Slowe allegedly touched the complainant in a sexual way by rubbing her left leg and foot without consent. It is further alleged that on March 29, 2019, at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Slowe touched the complainant in a sexual way by rubbing her left leg and foot without consent. It is also alleged that on April 2, 2019, at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Slowe touched the complainant in a sexual way by rubbing her left leg and foot without consent.
