Cop on trial for abusive language was over legal alcohol limit

Two senior policemen yesterday testified that Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Frank Thompson, who is on trial for using abusive language to a junior rank investigating his involvement in a vehicular accident, had a breath alcohol content way above the legal limit on the very day.

This disclosure was made when Thompson’s trial continued yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore in Georgetown.

It is alleged that Thompson, of 154 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, used abusive language to Police Constable Leandre Gillis on February 22, at Broad Street, Georgetown.