Irish teen to be freed on charge of threatening to shoot President Ramotar

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The director of public prosecution (DPP) has reportedly dropped charges against an Irish teenager who was accused earlier this year of threatening to shoot and kill President Donald Ramotar.
The DPP, Bibi Shalimar Ali-Hack wrote a letter stating she was dropping criminal proceedings against 17-year-old Cillian James Crossan. The case is expected to be dismissed when it is called again in court.
Crossan’s lawyer Glenn Hanoman had said the teen was having an alcohol-fuelled conversation with two bodyguards of the president at an international rodeo event in April and was joking when he said he would shoot and kill Ramotar – saying it was because he didn’t believe the two men were really the president’s bodyguards.
The president was not there at the time.
“He had been drinking beer since early the morning and had even mixed rum and beer and had them at the same time,” Hanoman said. “I think that was the main factor at play when he argued with two of the guards.” Crossan pleaded not guilty to the charge before and was released on bail.
Crossan is accused of threatening to shoot the Guyanese leader on March 29 at City Boy Club, Tabatinga, Lethem.
He had appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on April 2. According to the police, on March 29 at Central Rupununi, Crossan said he would shoot the president who was not present at the time, but Amerindian Affairs Ministry Permanent Secretary Nigel Dharamlall overheard the comment and approached the young man, asking him what he said and he repeated that he would shoot the president in his head.
The matter was then reported.
Prosecutor Vishnu Hunte had objected to bail, stating that the threat was aimed at the president of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and that the defendant is also a flight risk. Crossan gave a caution statement admitting to what he did. The magistrate granted him bail in the sum of Gy$ 60,000.

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