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Friday, February 28, 2025

Alleyne on four charges

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Tele­vi­sion per­son­al­i­ty and host of Crime Watch Ian Al­leyne spent last night at the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion, St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain, hours af­ter four crim­i­nal charges were laid against him. He ar­rived at the sta­tion short­ly af­ter 4 pm af­ter be­ing dis­charged from the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope. Al­leyne had been at hos­pi­tal since his ar­rest last Thurs­day night re­ceiv­ing treat­ment for chest pains. A re­port said his doc­tors kept him for ob­ser­va­tion due to his fluc­tu­at­ing blood pres­sure. Al­leyne was charged late yes­ter­day with three charges un­der Ssec­tion 32 (2) of the Sex­u­al Of­fens­es Act and one charge of re­sist­ing ASP Ajith Per­sad in the law­ful ex­e­cu­tion of his du­ties.The leg­is­la­tion states: "A per­son who pub­lish­es or broad­casts any mat­ter con­trary to sub-sec­tion 1 is guilty of an of­fence and li­able on sum­ma­ry con­vic­tion to a fine of $25,000 and to im­pris­on­ment for five years."

He was not al­lowed bail at the sta­tion as cus­tom­ary with oth­er sum­ma­ry of­fences due to a con­di­tion on his war­rants which pro­hib­it­ed bail oth­er than au­tho­rised by a mag­is­trate. Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Net­work (CCN) tele­vi­sion sta­tion TV6 was joint­ly charged with Al­leyne for al­leged­ly breach­ing the Sex­u­al Of­fences Act, se­nior po­lice sources said. The T&T Guardian un­der­stands that court sum­mons were de­liv­ered to CCN's Ex­press House, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain, of­fices yes­ter­day af­ter­noon. An of­fi­cer close to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­vealed that CCN al­so was served with three sum­mons, each for breach of their tele­vi­sion li­cence and of their tele­vi­sion con­ces­sion. Both charges stemmed from the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act. Af­ter his fin­ger­prints were record­ed and he was charged by po­lice yes­ter­day, the T&T Guardian was re­li­ably in­formed that Al­leyne was placed in a se­cured room, away from the pris­on­er-hold­ing cells at the po­lice sta­tion. The room was to be fit­ted with ba­sic fur­ni­ture and a small mat­tress. Be­fore 6 pm yes­ter­day, Al­leyne's em­ploy­ees were al­lowed to bring him cloth­ing for his court ap­pear­ance and some per­son­al ef­fects.

Al­leyne is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore Chief Mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar to an­swer the charges this morn­ing. He was de­tained by po­lice around 8 pm on Thurs­day while he stood in the car park at Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Net­work (CCN)'s of­fices at Ex­press House, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain. Al­leyne's ar­rest re­port­ed­ly stemmed from a tape which de­pict­ed the rape of a 13-year-old men­tal­ly-dis­abled girl who lives in Mor­vant. The tape was al­leged­ly shown three times on CCN tele­vi­sion sta­tion, TV6, on Oc­to­ber 25 and 26 last year. Af­ter com­plaints from sev­er­al or­gan­i­sa­tions, po­lice launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the air­ing of the tape.Their vis­it to CCN's head­quar­ters on Thurs­day was not the first in re­cent months. ASP Per­sad and of­fi­cers from the Port-of-Spain CID vis­it­ed the of­fices twice last year in search of the con­tro­ver­sial tapes and records of the broad­cast.


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