Public service vehicle (PSV) operator Paul Dwight Alleyne, known as ‘Bashment Monkey’, walked out of the District ‘A’ Traffic Court on Thursday free of 44 traffic offences and one criminal damage charge.When the Eckstein Village, Tudor Bridge, St Michael resident appeared before Magistrate Alison Burke, the prosecutor informed the court that two of the police officers who were warned to give evidence were not present.The prosecutor requested an adjournment, adding that one of the matters for trial dated back to 2020 and the other to 2017.After making a request to be heard, Alleyne argued that the cases were “very old”.
‘Bashment monkey’ ordered off the road for nine months
Article by April 22, 2021
Public service vehicle (PSV) operator, Paul Dwight Alleyne, a repeat traffic offender known on the street as
Bashment Monkey who has racked up over 270 convictions has been disqualified from driving route taxis for nine months effective immediately, the Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.
A panel of appeal judges – Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham, Justice Rajendra Narine and Justice Francis Belle – handed down a unanimous decision after hearing submissions from Alleyne’s attorney Kristin Turton and Crown Counsel Danielle Mottley for the prosecution.
Alleyne, 43, from Eckstein Village, Tudor Bridge, appealed against the Commissioner of Police over the “severity of the sentence” imposed on him by a Bridgetown magistrate in connection with a traffic offence five years ago.