–victim says he was ‘alarmed, shocked’ by Patterson flashing him

THE police have filed an appeal of the decision of City Magistrate Leron Daly to free Alliance For Change (AFC) member and former Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, in a case involving alleged public urination and obscene language, for which evidence was submitted and there was detailed testimony by the victim.

Last July, Patterson was hauled before the Georgetown Magistrate Court and was released on $70,000 bail after pleading not guilty to the charges.

The first charge alleged that, on July 16, at Lot 87 Seaforth Street, Section K, Campbellville, Georgetown, he exposed his genitals to Ramroop Oudit.

Additionally, it was claimed that, on the same date and location, Patterson used obscene language towards Oudit and provoked him, causing distress.

Despite video evidence and testimony from the victim, Oudit, the Magistrate upheld a no-case submission, leading to Patterson’s acquittal.

During the trial, Oudit testified that he witnessed Patterson urinating in public and making offensive remarks, with the incident captured on CCTV footage.

Patterson’s attorney made a no-case submission stating that the prosecution’s case lacks evidence to support the charges.

This no-case submission was upheld by Magistrate Daly, who determined, among other things, that there were issues regarding the description of Patterson’s genitalia, given his dark complexion.

However, Oudit, in his evidence in chief, provided a vivid description of Patterson’s genital.

Oudit added that he was about 35 feet from Patterson, and nothing blocked his view, and he was alarmed, shocked and felt very embarrassed.

He said that he knows David Patterson for several years before the incident and that Patterson frequents a shop opposite his work place. The victim had positively identified Patterson in Court.
The victim went on to state that on July 16, 2023, about 20:05 hours, while at his work place, he saw Patterson coming over to his workplace passageway and proceeded to urinate on garbage barrels, then turned towards him, exposing himself and making lewd remarks.

Oudit further described how Patterson turned towards him and made explicit remarks, saying, “this is the f**king government reserve, and I can pee anywhere cause is whole night I gone pee.”
Oudit recounted additional instances of public urination by Patterson, including an incident where Patterson urinated on the main gate and gate post, stating: “Sir this is full disrespect, you cannot pee on our gate” to which Patterson responded, “you carry ya sk**t, I can pee anywhere cause I ain’t done pee yet.”

The victim added that about 20 minutes after, Patterson returned to their workplace passageway and started to urinate on a white Premio car parked right in the passageway and he said to Patterson, “sir I want you to know, that I have great respect for you and I want you to know that you are on camera being recorded.”

Oudit said that at all times the place was very bright from the aid of electrical spotlights fitted to the front of the building and the streetlights and he could have seen David Patterson clearly. Additionally, the victim’s evidence was corroborated by CCTV footage.

The footages were extracted by a rank from the victim’s workplace and placed on a flash drive which was then handed over to another rank who placed it on disc.

The said disc containing the video footages was tendered and played in court by that rank and that rank identified the man seen in the video as Patterson, who is known to him.

Additionally, the rank who originally extracted the footages and placed it on the flash drive was shown the video footages in court and he too also identified the person in the video as Patterson.