An Irish teenager who took a gap year to teach in South America has ended up in court on a charge of threatening to assassinate the president of Guyana. Celtic mad Cillian Crosson, 17, from Lambtown, Ardee, is working as a volunteer teacher with the Project Trust charity. The court was told he was heard making the threat to shoot President Ramotar in the head on 29 March at City Boy Club at Tabatinga in Lethem. He denied the charge and was given bail of 60,000 Guyanese dollars (£185.98). The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that a threat was made against the head of state and that Mr Crosson was not a Guyanese national. However, a defence lawyer argued that his client was drunk and was not accustomed to local alcohol. Mr Crosson was ordered to report every Monday to the Lethem police station. Cillian Crosson took a year off before heading to university to study maths and English. He signed up with Project Trust which is one of the longest established Gap Year organisations and is based on the Isle of Coll off the west coast of Scotland.
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