Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
A police inspector has been granted $500,000 surety bail and an alternative of $30,000 cash bail for allegedly assaulting a female relative.
Insp Curtis Julien, who is attached to the Case Management Unit of the Fraud Squad, was also ordered to move out of his home as a condition of his bail. He appeared before High Court Master Margaret Sookraj-Goswami charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
It is alleged that he committed the offences against the 57-year-old woman on September 7. They were at the car park of Lolita’s Bar, Couva, when they got into an argument and he allegedly beat her. It is alleged that he also pointed his licenced firearm at her.
Ag Insp Starr Jacob conducted inquiries and charged him on Thursday. Before his appearance, his attorney Shiva Boodoo had filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus on his behalf.
Julien’s attorney petitioned the Master to grant reasonable bail.
The prosecution did not object to bail, but was concerned that the accused and the virtual complainant resided in the same home and he was the holder of a licensed firearm.
However, his attorney said Julien would make alternate living arrangements and he had willingly lodged his firearm at the Freeport Police Station.
Julien was also represented by attorney Roshi Balkaran. He was also ordered to have no communication with the woman and stay 500 metres away from her.
The matter was adjourned to October 11.