Charges likely this week in Colwyn Harding baton rape

Jun 01, 2014 News

After almost six months of investigation, a policewoman and one of her male colleagues are likely to appear in court this week in connection with the alleged November, 2013 baton assault of Timehri resident Colwyn Harding.

Colwyn Harding

Kaieteur News understands that the two ranks will be charged with assault, rather than sexual assault of Harding.
Indications are that at least two senior officers who were implicated in the alleged assault will face disciplinary action.
The development occurred after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) returned the lengthy report to the police on Thursday, with recommendations from Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Justice Cecil Kennard.
Justice Kennard had recommended that two ranks be charged and that others face disciplinary action.
On Friday, Crime Chief Leslie James confirmed that police are again in possession of the Colwyn Harding file. He reassured that results of the investigation will be known soon.
The 23-year-old Harding has alleged that a policeman at the Timehri station pushed a condom-covered baton up his anus in November 2013.
Harding, who was at the time a prisoner having been remanded for allegedly assaulting the cop and resisting arrest, suffered a ruptured intestine.
He subsequently had to undergo corrective surgery in Jamaica, even as a dispute arose as to how he had come by his injury.
The investigation triggered by public outrage, has taken several months with the file going back and forth from the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which was conducting the probe, to the desk of the Chairman of the PCA to the DPP’s office.

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