Labourer slapped with 10 charges over attack on police

(Kaieteur News) – A 36-year-old labourer, Whitney Harvey, was on Friday charged with 10 offences following an incident involving ranks of the Guyana Police Force and remanded to prison.

According to the Police Force, Harvey, of No. 51 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Tuanna Hardy at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with damage to property, two counts each of assault causing actual bodily harm, assaulting a peace officer, resisting a peace officer and obstructing a peace officer, along with disorderly behaviour.

Harvey pleaded not guilty to the damage to property charge and the charges involving a Police Sergeant. However, he pleaded guilty to the charges involving a Police Lance Corporal.