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Man remanded for snatching gold chains
…attorney tells court that the virtual complainant should show proof that he can afford a gold chain.
Derwayne Harding
A vendor was yesterday remanded to prison on an armed robbery charge, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
It is alleged that Derwayne Harding, 27, of Lot 307 West Ruimveldt on March 22, 2015 in the Georgetown district, armed with a cutlass robbed Calvin Mercurius of two gold chains.
Harding, a vendor, pleaded not guilty to the offense.
Prosecutor Neville Jeffers stated that the accused approached Mercurius and snatched his gold chains. He added that when the victim asked back for his belongings, Harding brandished a cutlass at him and ran into a bus.
Harding’s attorney, Paul Fung-A-Fat, challenged the police to prove that there was a robbery, mockingly asking Mercurius to produce a receipt that he can “afford to buy one gold chain”. He stated that his client was involved in a fight with the complainant and not a robbery. He alleged that Mercurius was beating Harding’s younger brother when the defendant intervened and a fight started.
The prosecution, however, stated that Harding had given an oral statement, confessing to the robbery.
“The jails are unsafe now Your Worship…Please I’m asking for reasonable bail,” Harding said.
Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan refused his application and remanded Harding to prison until his court hearing on April 8, 2015.
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