(Trinidad Express) Lawyers have now gotten involved in what was supposed to be a private family issue, but found its way in the public domain after a video surfaced on social media on Friday showing a police officer being confronted by his wife over his alleged infidelity.
The six-minute-long video has since been shared multiple times, with some social media users creating various memes and skits poking fun at the officer named “Terrance”, who sat silently on a couch and stared blankly at his wife during the confrontation.
The officer’s parents were also present as the woman gave alleged details of how she came to know of her husband’s infidelity with a 23-year-old woman.
Another video showed him eventually leaving the family’s home with his belongings packed in garbage bags.
On Saturday, attorneys Shiva Boodoo and Roshni Balkaran issued a notice, but it was not issued from either of the parties to the other.
Instead, it was issued to “all members of the public” asking that they cease and desist from further sharing the videos, pointing out that the videos were being shared without their clients’ authorisation.
“We take this opportunity to place members of the public on notice that the said video was filmed strictly for private usage by our clients and its publication and reproduction was not so authorised and as such, we ask that you refrain from sharing the same via Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram or any other social media platforms as it has caused much distress to our clients as their images have been plastered across various forms of social media without their consent,” the letter stated.
Given that the video was recorded by the woman herself, the letter did not disclose how it first found its way on social media.
The attorneys said they trust that members of the public would desist from further sharing the video, and looked forward to their cooperation “as the continued sharing of the said video only serves to exacerbate and inflame a sensitive issue which was meant to be treated privately in the first place”.
In the video, the woman said she had evidence that her husband and the other woman first met about a year ago when she went to the station where he worked to make a report of domestic violence. For the past three months they had been intimate, she said.
She told her husband she received her information from an anonymous source who provided her with details of the locations where “Terrance” and the woman would usually visit, including a bar in Felicity as well as a particular guest house.
She also claimed to have knowledge that the outside woman had become pregnant with “Terrance’s” baby.
After the video became public, the other woman recorded and shared a video of her own in an attempt to clear her name. She admitted to being in an intimate relationship with the officer but claimed that while she knew he was married, she was assured by him that he and his wife were separated.
She denied she was a homewrecker or that she was pregnant with the officer’s child.