‘The police said I could drink at the boxing’...
POLICE agreed to drop a man’s previously imposed bail condition preventing him from drinking alcohol for the evening to enable him to attend a dinner boxing event, the Magistrate’s Court heard – but the court disagreed.
Michael Ogier, 44, and Jamie Ogier, 38, who at previous hearings of the court had given their addresses as Room 12, Happy Landings, Rue des Landes, Forest, and 23, Pont Vaillant Estate, Vale, respectively, both denied a joint charge of using threatening behaviour towards another man at the North Plantation on New Year’s Eve.
Michael Ogier also denies behaving in a disorderly manner, escaping from lawful custody, and two charges of resisting police officers in the due execution of their duties.
Jamie Ogier also denies obstructing police officers in the due execution of their duties.
Both were bailed with conditions not to drink alcohol and to submit to a breath test if police request one, and not to contact the man they are alleged to have threatened whether directly or indirectly.
Both men asked the court to lift the no-alcohol condition. At a previous court hearing, Michael Ogier told the court that police had agreed to lift a previously imposed police bail condition not to consume alcohol to enable him to drink at a dinner boxing event. He said he had called them five times about it.
Judge Cherry McMillen said it would be extraordinary if that was the case and she asked the prosecution to check it with police.
At the men’s latest court appearance, Judge Graeme McKerrell asked if that check had been made. Crown advocate Chris Dunford said it had and that what Michael Ogier said had been correct.
Judge McKerrell said it had been a most bizarre decision and he asked Advocate Dunford to speak to police about it.
He said the no-alcohol condition imposed by the court would remain in place in respect of both men, who must attend a pre-trial review this month.
