By Sue-Ann Wayow
FOR allegedly sending a message on WhatsApp to his ex-girlfriend, a 59-year-old man was arrested and charged.
On Monday, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) in a release stated that the former businessman who pleaded not guilty to breaching of a protection order last Thursday was granted $40,000 bail with a surety by an Arima Magistrate.
The accused was arrested and charged by WPC Paponette of the Northern Division Gender-Based Violence Unit following a March report made to police that a man allegedly texted his ex-girlfriend on WhatsApp.
The alleged actions were in contravention of a protection order which restrained several behaviours of the man including telephoning the woman on her cell phone or at her workplace or contacting her by any means.
According to the woman who filed for the protection order following reports of verbal and psychological abuse, the man texted her twice on two separate occasions in March this year.
