Teen ‘threatened to kill’ Guyana leader

An Irish teenager has been charged with threatening to shoot and kill the president of Guyana during what his lawyer said was an alcohol-fuelled conversation with two of the leader’s bodyguards.

Cillian James Crossan from Ardee, Co Louth, a 17-year-old volunteer with an aid group, was joking when he said he would shoot and kill president Donald Ramotar and said it because he did not believe the two men were really bodyguards, defence lawyer Glenn Hanoman said.

“He had been drinking beer since early in the morning and had even mixed rum and beer and had them at the same time. I think that was the main factor at play when he argued with two of the guards.”