Fast bowler Taylor freed after arrest for assault
Saturday, 2 January 2010
KINGSTON, Jan 1 (AFP): West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor escaped starting the New Year in police lock-up after he was arrested, charged and released over an incident at a bar.
Taylor, who had to return home early from the West Indies' recent three-Test tour of Australia with injuries, was charged with using indecent language, assaulting a police officer, improper conduct and resisting arrest by local police in his parish, St. Elizabeth.
According to police sergeant Clifford Evans, Taylor was a patron in a bar when police ordered it to close as required at 11pm.
Taylor, who had to return home early from the West Indies' recent three-Test tour of Australia with injuries, was charged with using indecent language, assaulting a police officer, improper conduct and resisting arrest by local police in his parish, St. Elizabeth.
According to police sergeant Clifford Evans, Taylor was a patron in a bar when police ordered it to close as required at 11pm.