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Food vendor remanded for guns at Kitty

Jun 02, 2012 News

 

A 20-year- old man was yesterday remanded to jail after he made an appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive –Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The man, Cornel Atkinson, of Lot 29 Railway Embankment Kitty was charged with illegal firearm possession.
The police said that on May 29, last, at the defendant’s home they found one .243 Smith and Wesson rifle and one rifle with telescopic lens. They said the man does not have licence for the guns. To the charge Atkinson pleaded not guilty.
The defendant was represented by Attorney-at-law Sonia Parag who said that to her knowledge, the guns were not found in her client’s yard but were taken from the yard next door. The woman said that if the matter is to go to trial, there is pictorial evidence that will show a policeman removing the guns and placing them in her client’s yard.
The lawyer also claimed that her client was severely beaten in the abdomen by the police.
After taking a look, the court was unable to see any physical indication that would prove that the man had been beaten in the stomach. No marks of violence could be seen on the defendant’s abdomen.
The prosecutor however objected to bail for the defendant since the police’s facts differed. She told the court that the guns were found in a pair of blue jeans in the defendant’s yard. She further said that the man admitted to owning the prohibited articles.
Atkinson was denied bail and ordered to remain in state custody until July 3 when his matter will be heard again.
This publication understands that the guns were found after a misunderstanding between two friends. It is said that the disgruntled friend told police about guns hidden in the man’s yard. Searches were conducted and the rifles were found in the vicinity.

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