Man in Trinidad imprisoned for 14 days for threatening to kill PM, police commissioner
Published:Friday | December 29, 2023 | 12:09 PM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A magistrate in Trinidad has sentenced a man who called the E999emergency hotline to threaten to kill both Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Commissioner of Police, Erla Harewood-Christopher, to 14 days' simple imprisonment.
Magistrate Alexander Prince, sitting at the Couva Court in Central Trinidad on Thursday, imposed the sentence on Ian Sookram after he was charged with misuse of the telephone, contrary to Section 106 (a) of the Summary Offences Act.
He had threatened to cut off the heads of the prime minister and the top cop.
The court heard that Sookram, who pleaded guilty to the charge, had on November 25 this year, about 1:39 am (local time) called the E999 emergency hotline and made the threats against Rowley and Harewood-Christopher.
The Central Trinidad resident was later arrested and charged with the offence of obscene language, to which he was also sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment.
Both sentences are to run concurrently.
The court heard that in April 2019 Sookram was also arrested and charged for threatening then-commissioner Gary Griffith and his wife, Nicole Dyer-Griffith.
On those charges, Sookram was sentenced to 14 days at hard labour for the threat and 14 days at hard labour for wasteful employment of the police time.
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