A Couva man has been sentenced to 14 days in jail, after he called the E999 emergency hotline to threaten to chop off the necks of both the Prime Minister and police commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher.
Ian Sookram appeared before Magistrate Alexander Prince at the Couva court on Thursday, and was sentenced to 14 days simple imprisonment.
He was charged with misuse of the telephone, contrary to Section 106 (a) of the Summary Offences Act Chapter 11.02.
He pleaded guilty to the charge.
The court heard that around 1.30 am on November 25, Sookram of 293 Lallan Street, Carolina Village, Couva, called the E999 emergency hotline and made the threats against Rowley and Harewood-Christopher.
Sgt Sunil Ramdial of the Couva Police Staion conducted enquiries and arrested and charged Sookram.
He was also charged by PC Mehaboob of the Couva Police for the offence of obscene language. For this offence, Magistrate Prince also sentenced him to 14 days simple imprisonment.
Both sentences are to run concurrently.
The court also learnt that in April, 2019, Sookram was also arrested and charged for threatening then commissioner Gary Griffith and his wife, Nicole Dyer-Griffith.
On those charges, Sookram was sentenced to 14 days hard labour for the threat and 14 days hard labour for wasteful employment of the police time.