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‘Intimidated’ victim refuses to testify after being robbed

Mar 12, 2013 News

 

It was quite strange that after Vikash Gafoor of 879 Belle West, Canal, West Bank Demerara reported that Warren Mc Kenzie was one of the three attackers that robbed him, he suddenly decided to change his story.
Warren Mc Kenzie of Brutus Street, Agricola, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry to answer to the allegations of robbery under arms with a knife. He pleaded not guilty.
Police reports stated that on March 9, in the vicinity of Mc Doom, about 16:30hrs  the victim who is employed at Prettipaul Investment received his salary and on his way home, he was approached by three guys, one of whom was the defendant, Mc Kenzie.
The victim was able to recognize Mc Kenzie due to the fact that the defendant was once employed at his current place of employment. At this time the three guys robbed the complainant of two lunch bowls valued $500, a bottle of perfume worth $500 and his salary of 13,000.  The assailants then hit the victim in his head causing him to fall unconscious. The victim was picked up by a passerby who took him to the hospital.
What was also troubling to members of the court was that after the victim positively identified Mc Kenzie as one of the robbers, on the day of court he stated “your worship, he wasn’t the one that robbed me; was the other two.”
The victim added that he does not wish to proceed with this matter.
Mr. Paul Fung -A-fat who represented Mc Kenzie stated in his defense, that he is only a little boy who is 19-years- old and has never had any brushes with the law. Based on the victim’s response, he requested for bail at an affordable sum.
Prosecutor Kerry Bostwick feared that the victim may have been terrorized and objected to bail on the grounds that the victim positively identified the assailant as one of the individuals who robbed him when the report was made. He also cited the seriousness of the offence and contended that if granted bail the defendant would further intimidate the victim.
The Magistrate remanded Mc Kenzie to prison and adjourned the matter to Friday.

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