Visitor did not use ‘F’ word to abuse policewoman

A witness did not hear a Georgian woman abusing a policewoman in English at the time that the plaintiff claimed she was insulted in Arabic and Russian. A British woman testified before the court that she did not hear the Georgian woman, who is facing the accusation of abusing a policewoman, AI, saying bad words in English to her. The denial witness made a very accurate testimony when she said: “I did not hear her saying the ‘F’ word in English and I do not understand Arabic.” Then the judge asked the witness: “Which language was the accused using while talking to the policewoman?” The witness said: “English… weak English.” The witness also testified that the accused was not given the key to a locker to keep her bag and was asked to leave and to come visit her son another day. The voices of the visitor and the policewoman rose and the latter was angry and rough, maybe due to the workload as the place was congested, she said. “Come again” means to wait one week as visits are allowed only on Saturdays. The Georgian mother went and talked to a tall police officer who seemed to be the policewoman’s senior, she said. When asked if the accused was allowed to visit her son on that day, she answered in the affirmative. The officer allowed her to enter with a little child who was accompanying her and the policeman looked very upset. When asked if she knew the accused before, the witness said no. “The first time I met her was on that day in the visitor’s reception area,” she said. SS, 53, business partner, who is facing the accusation of abusing a public employee who was performing her duty, allegedly for not arranging a locker for her bag on April 24, denied the accusation at an earlier hearing. At the last hearing the court heard the testimony of the policewoman in which she stressed she was implementing the Central Jail’s rules that the visitor did not like, resulting in an angry outburst from her and the “F” word in both Russian and Arabic. As per the rules, visitors are not allowed to carry anything with them while visiting prisoners and when the Georgian woman arrived all lockers had been taken by other visitors, “so I asked her to wait until someone returned from their visit or to come next Monday,” she said. SS told prosecution that while was waiting a Russian woman finished her visit, so she asked her for the key of the locker she was using. The policewoman asked the Russian woman to hand over the locker’s key to her. “Then the policewoman turned to me and asked what I had said to the Russian woman, and whether I had abused her. I denied that I had abused her, so she asked me for the visiting card and told me to come on Monday,” said SS. SS complained to the officer on duty that the policewoman had prevented her from visiting her son. The officer allowed her in and asked the policewoman to give her a locker key and the visiting card, SS said. The plaintiff said SS threw her bag on her table and asked her for a locker. As there were no lockers available, she was asked to wait. SS did not want to wait and asked the policewoman to keep her bag. “As this is not allowed, I apologised to her,” AI testified. SS told investigators: “This is not true… the policewoman asked me to keep my bag in my car… but I do not have a car, I told her.” AI insisted in her testimony before the court that SS had abused her by saying very dirty words in Arabic. “Whereas for the phrases she said to me in Russian, I cannot complain because I do not remember the words and I do not know their meaning,” she said. The court adjourned the case until the end of next month.