Six to stand trial for beating policeman

Magistrate Aden Stroude, presiding in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates Court, committed the six men — Rennie Ramcharan, 42, and his son Narcail Ramcharan, 21, both of Hill Top Drive, Maraval; brothers Darren Rogers, 42, and Collin Rogers, 41, both of Petit Valley; Ronald Moze, 20, of Las Lomas; and Kirby St John, of Maraval.

The six were charged by Acting Corporal Ricardo Nicome with causing grievous bodily harm to PC Dave Boxhill.

The charge stemmed from an altercation along the Western Main Road, Chaguaramas, on October 18, 2009.

Boxhill, an officer then assigned to the Police Highway Patrol Division, was driving east along the Western Main Road, near the Sailing Association in Chaguaramas. When he stopped there was an exchange of words between him and a group of men and he was attacked.