Accused’s wife tells court of cop’s sexual advances

A RIO Claro woman testified in the High Court yesterday that three days after she told a policeman she was fed up with his sexual harrassment, the same policeman charged her husband with marijuana cultivation.

Mairoon Seepersad testified: “I told him I was getting sick and tired of this nonsense and this thing has to stop”. Seepersad said one day she cautioned the officer: “My husband is at home and I am going to tell him what you are saying to me”. The woman told Justice Pamela Elder and jurors in the San Fernando Third Criminal Court that the policeman responded: “That man, I will lock up that man and come home and show you...”.   The woman claimed that the officer said after locking up her husband he would go to her home to have sex with her. Seepersad was called into the witness box yesterday by attorney Prakash Ramadhar, who is defending her husband, Mahabir Seepersad, 38, of Clear- water Village. The accused is jointly charged with Kello Mohammed, 42, of Kildeer Trace, Rio Claro.

The accused’s wife testified that she had known PC Wayne Doodai for approximately 11 years, since she began working at the County Medical Officer of Health office in Rio Claro. She said Doohai would visit every two weeks, and he would make advances towards her. Seepersad said: “He told me he loved me. I told him I wasn’t interested. Another time he would say  ‘I love you, let’s go have lunch, I want to talk to you’.” Mairoon said that on April 30, 1999, PC Doodhai stopped her while she was driving her car and again harrassed her. She said she became afraid. “I felt scared and I felt a chill run through my body. My hands started to shake and I went home and told my husband,” Seepersad said. Three days later, on May 2, 1999, her husband was arrested and charged for marijuana cultivation.