Cop on assault charges over Marudi beatings

A still shot from the video showing the beating

Police Corporal Nafaste Morris, who was caught on camera beating persons along a trail at Marudi Mountain, South Rupununi last month, was yesterday charged with four counts of assault, including on a 10-year-old boy.

Morris, 31, of Lot 7 Ogle Front, East Coast Demerara, was granted a bail release in the sum of $80,000 by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Morris, a member of the Tactical Services Unit, is charged with committed the assaults on March 2,