Threats have been made to the State's main wit­ness in the case against Po­lice Con­sta­ble Curt Tees­dale who is ac­cused of trans­fer­ring a po­lice is­sued firearm and am­mu­ni­tion to a man. Act­ing Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Ra­jen­dra Ram­bachan, pre­sid­ing in the San Fer­nan­do First Court, heard this from State pros­e­cu­tor Trevor Jones when Tees­dale reap­peared in court. Tees­dale, of St Mary's Vil­lage, Moru­ga, is fac­ing three charges aris­ing out of an al­leged in­ci­dent in which he al­leged­ly trans­ferred his firearm and am­mu­ni­tion to a man in 2009. Jones said the threats had been re­port­ed at the Fyz­abad Po­lice Sta­tion. He said the po­lice com­plainant was not present to shed more light on the al­le­ga­tions which would be in­ves­ti­gat­ed.

De­fence lawyer, Richard Valere, ob­ject­ed to the al­le­ga­tion as he ques­tioned the ap­pear­ance of the wit­ness in court yes­ter­day. Valere said if the mat­ter was pro­ceed­ing by way of pa­per com­mit­tal "why is the wit­ness present." "If he does not come, there will not be any op­por­tu­ni­ty for my client to be ac­cused of in­ter­fer­ing with the wit­ness," said Valere. How­ev­er, Ram­bachan said: "If he is the pri­ma­ry wit­ness, wouldn't you want to have him here?." The mat­ter was ad­journed to De­cem­ber 12 to start. Tees­dale, who was last as­signed to Mon Re­pos Po­lice Sta­tion and has 25 years ser­vice, is out on $125,000 bail. The charges against the of­fi­cer stemmed from an al­leged in­ci­dent on Ju­ly 3, 2009, at Har­ris Prom­e­nade, San Fer­nan­do.