A police constable on assault charges has been placed on $90,000 bail with a surety.
PC Justin Redhead was granted bail for three offences – breach of a protection order, assault by beating and assault by threats.
He appeared virtually before Magistrate Sarah De Silva at the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court on Friday and the matter was adjourned to May 4, 2021.
Redhead, 39, who is attached to the Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch, was arrested following investigations spearheaded by Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne, Inspector Stanley, and WP Corporal Edwards, of the Gender-Based Violence Unit (GBVU), the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) stated in a release.
On August 12, 2020, a woman applied for and obtained a protection order from the Family Court against the police officer which stated that he should not “verbally, emotionally, physically assault, or financially abuse the applicant.”
He was also restrained from engaging in any acts of domestic violence towards the applicant.
On April 18, 2021, at 12.10pm the woman made a report of an alleged breach of the said protection order against PC Redhead to the Cumuto Police Station.
The report was subsequently referred to the Gender-Based Violence Unit, Northern Division.
The woman was taken to the Arima Health Facility where she was medically examined and discharged.
