Attorney on sex charges threatens to sue newspaper

At­tor­ney Mar­tin George, who is out on $150,000 bail af­ter be­ing charged with griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault and in­de­cent as­sault, is threat­en­ing to sue the Trinidad Ex­press news­pa­per over its re­port­ing of the mat­ter.

This fol­lows a head­line ti­tled “In­de­cent George” on the front page which George’s at­tor­neys says “jeop­ar­dis­es in a most fun­da­men­tal way our client’s right to a fair tri­al, and is a shame­less and de­lib­er­ate and cheeky act of pre-tri­al pub­lic­i­ty.”

The let­ter, sent by JD Sel­l­i­er + Co, fur­ther stat­ed that it was based on the fact that George has no­ticed a “con­tin­u­a­tion of a pat­tern of be­hav­iour by the OCM Group as on 10, Ju­ly 2025, on the front page of its on­line TV6 news brief, a pho­to­graph of our client is plas­tered along­side a head­line which had noth­ing at all to do with our client, which head­line read “Crime Wrap: Pen­sion­er’s Body.”

“Again, it is unar­guable that this tar­nish­es our client’s char­ac­ter and rep­u­ta­tion as, of course, there was no pen­sion­er’s body found at our client’s busi­ness place and if it is not slop­py care­less jour­nal­ism, it is cheap sen­sa­tion­al­ism us­ing our client’s pic­ture to make an im­pact, and to dri­ve clicks reck­less­ly in­dif­fer­ent to the ma­li­cious false­hoods and the dam­age done to our client’s name, char­ac­ter, cred­it and rep­u­ta­tion,” the let­ter added.

George, through his at­tor­neys, is call­ing on the Ex­press to im­me­di­ate­ly cease and de­sist from pub­lish­ing any fur­ther defam­a­to­ry state­ments con­cern­ing their client; is­sue a re­trac­tion and apol­o­gy; and to pay a prop­er and suit­able sum as dam­ages.

One day af­ter be­ing charged George, at a me­dia con­fer­ence on Ju­ly 10, said he was, “One hun­dred per cent in­no­cent.”

Mean­while, po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the leak of con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion in case.

The move came in re­sponse to state­ments from the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T re­gard­ing the pur­port­ed re­lease of the com­plainant’s name, im­age, and the con­tents of her state­ment.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has or­dered an ur­gent probe to de­ter­mine how this con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion en­tered the pub­lic do­main.

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