The police today issued a wanted bulletin for Maverick De Abreu, 29, for questioning in relation to the assault on gay rights activist Joel Simpson on June 15 at Bourda Market.
His last known address is Lot 56 Broad Street, Charlestown.
Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of De Abreu is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers 226-1389, 227-2128, 226-7476, 226-7065, 227-2603, 227-1611, 227-1149, 227-1270, 225-6940 to 9, 225-3650, 226-1928, 911 or the nearest police station.
Simpson had said that when he arrived at Bourda Market on the morning of June 15, the same group of six men, who were harassing him and his friends earlier at Palm Court, were at the `Aunty’ snackette.
“The guys were there and I was waiting on my turn to order and one of them say ‘ey that’s the guy from PC who disrespect we’. I didn’t pay any mind and Aunty started asking me what I am getting. I started making my order and while ordering, I just felt being cuffed and kicked and I hit the ground,” Simpson recalled.
He fell a couple of feet away from the snackette and the group of men started to kick him about his body. Instinctively, he said, he covered his head and endured the attack before the snackette owner’s son, Dave, tried to intervene and rescue him. A City Constabulary officer, who was on the scene, also tried to intervene but was slapped by one of the men.
Subsequently, a verbal altercation ensued between the men and other persons around as Dave and the City Constabulary officer pulled him away before the six men left in two white cars.
After they drove off, Simpson said he called one of his friends and was taken to the Accident and Emergency Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital where his injuries were tended to.
De Abreu is currently before the court on a charge of assaulting Trinidadian Soca singer, Rodney ‘Benjai’ LeBlanc
