A 50-year-old man was on Tuesday charged with assaulting a police constable, who allegedly found him smoking cannabis.
But Kenneth Small, a miner, who was read two charges by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown, told the court that the constable tried to solicit a bribe from him and attacked him after he refused.
The charges against Small are that on November 4, at Baramita, he assaulted Constable Mervin Sam and that he was found smoking cannabis on the same day at the same location.
Small pleaded “guilty with explanation” to both charges.
