A High Court judge last week quashed a city magistrate’s decision to punish a police inspector by imprisoning him for misconduct during a trial.
In May, Inspector Prem Narine was sentenced to serve a seven-day prison term for unlawfully insulting Magistrate Rhondel Weever during a hearing.
He was, however, freed after several hours in custody as a result of his attorney, Everton Singh-Lammy moving to have the Chief Justice Roxane George review the decision. The judge ruled that the punishment of seven days was excessive and ordered that there be a “partial remission of the sentence imposed to reflect detention from the time the order of sentence was passed on the 22nd of May, 2019 to no later than 16.30 hrs” on the said day.
