Cop given suspended sentence for assaulting man
Published:Friday | March 4, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
Inspector Dadrick Henry, who was attached to the Central Police Station, has been given a suspended sentence for assaulting a patron at a dance in Allman Town, Kingston, in September 2006.
Resident Magistrate Maxine Ellis convicted him last month of assault occasioning bodily harm.
Henry is appealing against his conviction and his appeal will be filed tomorrow.
The complainant testified in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court that he was at the dance when Henry and a woman had a confrontation. He said he intervened and Henry used a gun to beat him all over his body. A doctor testified that he examined the complainant who had bruises and abrasions on his body.
Henry denied beating the complainant. He said he got a report from Police Radio Control that the Noise Abatement Act was being breached at a dance in Allman Town.
Henry said he and other policemen went to the dance. He said someone touched him while he was there and he pushed the person off.
A police officer who was called as a defence witness said he was at the dance and Henry did not beat the complainant.
Henry was one of the policemen who were involved in a dispute with medical doctor Jephthah Ford at a function at Fun Citi in April 2007.
The police claimed Ford attacked them and discharged his licensed firearm. Ford said he was badly beaten by the police when he intervened during a dispute between the police and one of his relatives who was being beaten by the lawmen.
Ford was charged with illegal possession of firearm, shooting with intent and assault, but he was freed in the Gun Court in July 2009 because the charges could not be substantiated.