Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Se­nior foren­sic pathol­o­gist Dr Valery Alexan­drov has filed for a pro­tec­tion or­der from the court, af­ter be­ing phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ed in­side a mor­tu­ary room by one of his col­leagues last month.The sus­pect, who has faced a sim­i­lar charge in the past, is ex­pect­ed to be charged with as­sault by beat­ing.Since the sto­ry broke in the me­dia last week, Alexan­drov said he has been con­cerned for his safe­ty.

"I am at home for the rest of the week. I have spo­ken to my lawyer, who will file for the re­strain­ing or­der on my be­half. My fam­i­ly is very wor­ried about me. They have ad­vised me to get this re­strain­ing or­der, so I am work­ing on that to­day," Alexan­drov said last Thurs­day.Alexan­drov was beat­en on De­cem­ber 2 by a co-work­er in the mor­tu­ary room of the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James. Pho­tographs and video footage showed he was grabbed by his tie, kicked and chucked out of the room by the sus­pect.

Alexan­drov made a re­port in De­cem­ber and last Mon­day, and a case file was fi­nal­ly sub­mit­ted by PC Ravi Mo­han of the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion. Mo­han re­ceived in­struc­tions to pro­ceed by sum­mons in the mat­ter and a file was sent to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.