The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) is launching an internal investigation into an off-duty officer’s detainment of a tourist for kissing his boyfriend at a local bar last Wednesday (30 April).

The off-duty officer had warned him not to kiss his partner and, according to Mr Chandler, told him, “It is against the law for two people of the same sex to show displays of affection in public,” but no such law exists in the Cayman Islands Penal Code.

Long-time local lawyer Stephen Hall-Jones confirmed “there is no such charge of public displays of affection. It is unknown to the law“.

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