New York - A policeman pleaded guilty yesterday to beating and sexually assaulting Haitian immigrant Mr Abner Louima. Officer Justin Volpe (27) admitted to six charges in Brooklyn Federal Court, where fellow officers confirmed most of Mr Louima's account of what happened in a Brooklyn police station bathroom on August 9th, 1997.
Volpe said: "While in the bathroom of the precinct, in the presence of another officer, I sodomised Mr Louima with a stick. I told him if you tell anyone, I will find you and I will kill you." He is to be sentenced later.