Derek Achong

A po­lice con­sta­ble ac­cused of drunk­en dri­ving was yes­ter­day grant­ed $8,000 bail. PC Sean Le­gendre plead­ed not guilty to the of­fence dur­ing his ap­pear­ance be­fore Mag­is­trate Wendy Dougdeen-Bal­ly in the Port-of-Spain Sixth Court. The of­fi­cer, who is as­signed to the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF), was ar­rest­ed by po­lice on Thurs­day night af­ter an ac­ci­dent along Sad­dle Road in Mar­aval.

Af­ter ar­riv­ing on the scene of the ac­ci­dent, PC Le­gendre was breathal­ysed and al­leged­ly record­ed a read­ing of 125 mi­cro­grammes of al­co­hol for every 100 mil­li­l­itres of breath-al­most four times the le­gal al­co­hol lim­it. He was tak­en to the Mar­aval Po­lice Sta­tion, where he was charged by Sgt Kei­th Lu­cas.

Fines up to a max­i­mum of $8,000 or jail terms of up to three years can be im­posed on first-time of­fend­ers un­der the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act. Le­gendre was rep­re­sent­ed by lawyer Ul­rick Sker­ritt. He will reap­pear in court on May 9.