No. T69 Re­neasha Williams, a po­lice re­cruit is one of two charged with sev­er­al of­fences fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent that oc­curred in To­ba­go on Sun­day 13th Feb­ru­ary 2022.

She was al­so charged with do­ing an act with the ten­den­cy to per­vert the course of pub­lic jus­tice by mak­ing a false re­port at a po­lice sta­tion, as well as do­ing an act with the ten­den­cy to per­vert the course of pub­lic jus­tice by coun­selling a wit­ness to give a false re­port to the po­lice.

Joki­ah Lea­cock was charged for dri­ving a mo­tor ve­hi­cle while not be­ing the hold­er of a Trinidad and To­ba­go dri­ver’s per­mit and be­ing the dri­ver of a ve­hi­cle when an ac­ci­dent oc­curred and fail­ing to pro­ceed to the near­est po­lice sta­tion or con­sta­ble in uni­form to re­port the ac­ci­dent.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

A po­lice re­cruit is one of two charged with sev­er­al of­fences fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent that oc­curred in To­ba­go on Sun­day 13th Feb­ru­ary 2022.

No. T69 Re­neasha Williams, 32 of Fal­con Dri­ve, Sou Sou Lands, To­ba­go, and Joki­ah Lea­cock, 23 of Great Street, Ply­mouth, To­ba­go, were joint­ly charged for con­spir­ing to do acts to per­vert the course of pub­lic jus­tice by coun­selling a wit­ness to give a false state­ment.

Williams was al­so charged for do­ing an act with the ten­den­cy to per­vert the course of pub­lic jus­tice by mak­ing a false re­port at a po­lice sta­tion, as well as do­ing an act with the ten­den­cy to per­vert the course of pub­lic jus­tice by coun­selling a wit­ness to give a false re­port to the po­lice.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Lea­cock was charged for dri­ving a mo­tor ve­hi­cle while not be­ing the hold­er of a Trinidad and To­ba­go dri­ver’s per­mit and be­ing the dri­ver of a ve­hi­cle when an ac­ci­dent oc­curred and fail­ing to pro­ceed to the near­est po­lice sta­tion or con­sta­ble in uni­form to re­port the ac­ci­dent.

The charges were laid on Fri­day 24th June 2022 af­ter ad­vice re­ceived from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Mr. Roger Gas­pard, S.C.

On Sun­day 13th Feb­ru­ary 2022, a 23-year-old man was al­leged­ly in­volved in a ve­hic­u­lar col­li­sion while dri­ving in To­ba­go which re­sult­ed in dam­ages to both ve­hi­cles. A re­port re­gard­ing the ac­ci­dent was al­leged­ly made lat­er that day by the 32-year-old own­er of the ve­hi­cle dri­ven by the man that al­leged­ly in­di­cat­ed that she was dri­ving the ve­hi­cle at the time of the ac­ci­dent. Sub­se­quent­ly, both the own­er and dri­ver al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to per­suade wit­ness­es to give a false ac­count of the ac­ci­dent by in­di­cat­ing the own­er was dri­ving the ve­hi­cle when it oc­curred.

Of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau in­ves­ti­gat­ed the mat­ter which re­sult­ed in the ar­rests. The charges were sub­se­quent­ly laid by W/Cpl (Ag.) Bur­gan.

Williams re­ceived bail with a sure­ty of $60,000 from a Jus­tice of the Peace to cov­er the three charges. Both are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court, to­day, Mon­day 27th June 2022.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were spear­head­ed by W/Snr Supt Mar­tin, su­per­vised by In­sp. Nar­ine, and in­clud­ed Sgt. (Ag.) Mo­hammed, W/Cpl (Ag.) Bernard, and Cpl (Ag.) Joe­field.