19/07/16
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This was dropped, however, after magistrates decided that Opoku, who was unable
to speak English, simply didn’t understand what the officers were asking.
Wayne Hardy, defending, said: “Mr Opoku fully
accepts he was in a drunken state on Sunday evening and he accepts his
behaviour was disruptive when the police were trying to sort out the
situation.”
Mr Hardy described his client as “a writer
with no regular income who lives hand-to-mouth each day as it comes”.
Opoku was given a £90 fine and told that the
two nights he had already spent in custody, due to the court’s struggle to find
an interpreter, was enough time served.
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