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Nightspot shooter remanded to prison

Jan 22, 2013 News

Ryan Busby appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson yesterday in relation to a shooting outside a city nightspot early Sunday morning. Busby has been charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
According to recent newspaper reports the defendant, a nightspot patron walked out of the city nightspot and pulled from his waist a Glock 19 nine millimeter pistol and discharged a round, during an argument with another person.
The police who raced to the scene after receiving the report of a shooting arrested him with the pistol. He could not produce a licence and was taken to the Brickdam Police Station.
Some were of the opinion that the shooter must have been an important person because within minutes people were calling the station seeking his release. Some of the callers were said to be senior police officers.
However Busby remained in custody and appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer two charges for being an unlicensed firearm holder. He was remanded to prison despite a bail application by his Attorney Glenn Hanoman.
Subsequent to Busby entering a plea of not guilty to the charge which read on January 20, 2013 at Main Street he had in his possession a Glock 19 nine millimeter pistol and matching rounds of ammunition, Hanoman made an application for the court to grant the defendant bail at an affordable sum.
Hanoman claimed that his client, 22, of Lot 37 William Street, Kitty was not the person who discharged the loaded firearm in the vicinity of the city nightspot.  He instead claimed that police ranks planted the gun on his client after they arrived at the scene of the crime.
However the prosecution, “shot down,” these remarks by the defence. The prosecution related the facts of the case.  The facts stated, during the police search, the firearm was found in the right side pocket of a quite intoxicated Busby.
The case is adjourned until January 30.

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