Re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer Ger­ald "Fat­man" Kissoon was or­dered to com­pen­sate his neigh­bour, whom he shot last year, in or­der to avoid prison time.

On Mon­day, Kissoon plead­ed guilty to wound­ing with in­tent and ma­li­cious dam­age to prop­er­ty. The 56-year-old ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Jus­tice Nali­ni Singh, ad­mit­ting to the charges stem­ming from an in­ci­dent on March 19, 2024.

Kissoon ac­knowl­edged shoot­ing his neigh­bour, Maeil Mc Al­lis­ter, with his li­censed firearm at Vil­lage Plaza, Cashew Gar­dens, Long­denville.

Fol­low­ing the shoot­ing, Kissoon went to Mc Al­lis­ter's home and fired at it 10 times, dam­ag­ing the win­dows while Mc Al­lis­ter’s girl­friend was asleep. He lat­er sur­ren­dered to po­lice along with his firearm.

De­fence at­tor­ney Tara­dath Singh, rep­re­sent­ing Kissoon, sub­mit­ted some 20 po­lice re­ports Kissoon had made against Mc Al­lis­ter be­tween 2017 and 2024. This was part of a plea-bar­gain­ing agree­ment with the state.

As part of the agree­ment, Kissoon was spared jail time and had a charge of dis­charg­ing a firearm with­in 40 me­tres of a pub­lic road or in a pub­lic place dis­missed.

Jus­tice Singh or­dered Kissoon, who had over three decades of po­lice ser­vice, to be placed on a bond to keep the peace, fail­ing which he would be re­quired to pay $30,000. He was al­so or­dered to main­tain good be­hav­iour for a pe­ri­od of two years.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Kissoon was or­dered to pay $50,000 in com­pen­sa­tion, with an ini­tial pay­ment of $10,000 due by 4 pm yes­ter­day and the re­main­ing amount with­in 60 days.

If he fails to make the pay­ments, Kissoon will face two years’ im­pris­on­ment with hard labour. Singh al­so di­rect­ed him to reg­is­ter with the Pro­ba­tion Ser­vices Di­vi­sion for two years and to par­tic­i­pate in an anger man­age­ment pro­gramme dur­ing this pe­ri­od.

Cassie Bis­ram rep­re­sent­ed the State. - Jensen La Vende