{"id":33693,"date":"2019-05-23T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=33693"},"modified":"2019-05-23T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:17:04","slug":"barbados-british-visitor-freed-of-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/barbados-british-visitor-freed-of-assault-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"BARBADOS- British visitor freed of assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A visitor from the United Kingdom who was slapped with assault charges has been freed after the charges were dropped on Wednesday.<\/p>

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James\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>O\u2019Rourke, 44, was scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday after he was accused of slapping a woman \u00a0\u2013 Chairman Alleyne, on her buttocks.<\/p>\n

According to O\u2019Rourke, a first time visitor to the island, he left\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>the all-inclusive Sandals Royal on May 19, in search of cigarettes and went to the nearest ATM at a service station.<\/p>

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He said that while at the ATM,\u00a0\u00a0Alleyne started harassing him for money.<\/p>

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cI handed her $50 just to purely leave me alone. I then went to the counter to buy cigarettes and they were still harassing me, asking me for money,\u201d he told Nation News.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke said he later paid for his cigarettes and \u201cthe motion of my hand, she claimed I slapped her behind\u201d.<\/p>

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When he appeared in court earlier this week, O\u2019Rourke pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman and resisting the police.<\/p>\n

However, on Wednesday , O\u2019Roukre, a managing director from West Midlands, England, was reprimanded and discharged, based on footage from closed-circuit television cameras.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Following the dismissal of the case, O\u2019Roukre, who spent a night in prison, vowed to never return to the island.<\/p>

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\u201cI would never come back to Barbados in my life. You could not pay me \u00a310 million. I have been abused and discriminated. It is disgusting,\u201d he told National News<\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke, who is scheduled to leave the country on Thursday said he had been warned about \u201cthe local women, whether they were Jamaican that come over here\u201d, that they \u201ctrap the white men and try to extort money.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this was the perfect example of what happened. Thank God the technology has proven that I am an innocent man and I was released immediately because that jail was a dangerous place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo thank the Lord for the CCTV because . . . I was released immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A visitor from the United Kingdom who was slapped with assault charges has been freed after the charges were dropped on Wednesday. James\u00a0\u00a0O\u2019Rourke, 44, was scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday after he was accused of slapping a woman \u00a0\u2013 Chairman Alleyne, on her buttocks. 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