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Paul Slowe on bail for allegedly disclosing name of sexual assault victim
Kaieteur News- Former Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Slowe was placed on $50,000 bail on Wednesday for allegedly disclosing the name of a sexual assault victim, thereby breaching the anonymity of a complainant in press reporting.
Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Slowe.
Slowe appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty, in the company of his lawyer, Dawn Cush. Section 62 of the Sexual Offences Act, Chapter 8:03 prohibits the publication of any information that could identify the complainant or witness to an offence under the Act. Section 62 (3) outlines that every person who publishes in any document or broadcasts, or transmits in any way, any information that could identify the complainant or a witness contrary to subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two million dollars.
Slowe denied the charge which states that on August 25, 2024, while at Parade and Barrack Streets, Georgetown he breached the anonymity of a complainant in press reporting charge, when he disclosed the name of the alleged victim, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her. His lawyer, Cush highlighted to the court that her client retired from the Guyana Police Force in 2010 as the Assistant Commissioner of Police after dedicating 37 years of service. She contended that her client was not a flight risk, as he was previously placed on bail in relation to other matters and always appears in court, when required to do so. Magistrate McGusty granted bail in the sum of $50,000 and the matter was adjourned to March 5, 2025.
Meanwhile, in a subsequent press release, Cush said that last Friday, Slowe attended the Brickdam Police Station where he was informed of the charge and placed on $200,000.00 station bail. The charge related to an alleged incident where Mr. Slowe allegedly called the name of the virtual complainant in the sexual assault case which is being heard by Hon. Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in Court Three, Cush detailed in the release. Cush noted too that in court on Wednesday, Nigel Hughes, Attorney-at-Law applied to the court for permission for Mr. Slowe to leave the jurisdiction. He referred to a ruling in the David Patterson case where the Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire stated that the application to leave the jurisdiction pending trial must be made before the Magistrate.
The acting chief magistrate granted the application and the matter was adjourned to March 5, 2025 for discovery. Mr. Slowe was one of the defendants in a $10 million fraud in the Guyana Police Force, whose charges were all dismissed on December 27, 2023 by Hon. Magistrate Rhondel Weaver for the prosecution’s failure to prove its case. The sexual assault case where Mr. Slowe is also charged, began and was adjourned to March 7, 2025, Cush said in the release.
(Paul Slowe on bail for allegedly disclosing name of sexual assault victim)
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