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Sophia man remanded for discharging loaded firearm and armed robbery

Apr 21, 2012 News

 

 

An E-Field Sophia man will be kept in state custody until May 16, because he was remanded for allegedly firing a gun at a man who he reportedly intended to kill.
The defendant, 25-year-old O’Neil Simon, was also charged for reportedly using the gun to rob the victim, Arlene Jefferson, a Brazilian national, of one cell phone valued at $92,000 and $180,000 in cash.
The man appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was not required to plead to the two offences.
The police prosecutor told the court that on April 10, last, at Third Street, Alberttown, Georgetown around 20:00 hours, the victim parked his car and proceeded through a passageway heading to his home.
The defendant reportedly walked up to the victim and demanded that he hand over all his valuables. Jefferson, according to the police, objected to giving the alleged gunman anything and was therefore shot once in the right side of his stomach.
The police continued that the victim was hospitalized for four days.  Jefferson then suffered a relapse and was forced to be hospitalized again.
An application for bail not to be granted was made by the prosecutor who argued that for the seriousness of the offence the defendant should be remanded. The police further claimed that the condition of the victim was reason enough for the defendant to remain in custody.
Defence Attorney Basil Williams represented Simon and related to the court that to his knowledge the victim was released from the hospital two weeks ago, and the police, now seeking to convince the court that he was again hospitalized had to present some form of documentation.
He continued that the police failed to inform the court that the victim is a Brazilian national and that the victim and the defendant were known to each other. He argued that it was because of this that there were speculations that his client was the one to commit the crime.
The prosecutor then rose to inform the court that at the crime scene, a cell phone alleged to be that of the defendant was found and while on an identification parade, two eyewitnesses reportedly fingered Simon as being the shooter.
Williams again counteracted the prosecutor’s claims. He reiterated that because the persons are known to each other, his client was assumed to be the perpetrator. The lawyer further injected that it was a regular habit of the police “to go into the back of the Sophia area and pick up those young men when something happens.”
It was also revealed by the lawyer that Simon had been attending court for another matter and it was on Wednesday last while in court that he was arrested for the present offence. It is therefore obvious, the lawyer urged, that Simon would make himself present for the next court date.
Taking the side of the police and considering that the victim was again hospitalized, the court remanded the defendant to jail and transferred the matter to Court Three for a date to be assigned.
Magistrate Judy Latchman further remanded the defendant and gave him a date for the commencement of his trial.

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