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Security officer at St. Margaret’s Primary remanded for injuring parent
A security officer of St. Margaret’s Primary School was on Friday indicted on an unlawful wounding charge after he admitted that he struck a woman with a padlock while he was on duty.
Peter Noble
Appearing at the city’s court Peter Noble, of Lot 154 Section ‘C’ Sophia pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding Simone Lewis, a parent of a child attending the school on April 26, at Camp Street, Georgetown.
Noble, 45, pleaded guilty to the offence when the charge was read to him by Magistrate Faith McGusty.
The man, who said that he is employed by a private security service, told the court that on that day Lewis, a mother of two, tried to force her way into the compound through a gate. He said that he was instructed not to let anyone through the gate at a certain hour.
“It was 2:30pm when she came to see her daughter,” Noble said. He told the court that even after he informed the woman about the restrictions, she still persisted.
Prosecutor Seon Blackman told the court that he was not in possession of the file at the time to relay the facts to the court. However, Lewis, 42, told the court that she went to the school to collect her seven-year-old daughter when Noble refused to allow her inside the compound. She related that she tried to push the gate to let herself through but “He tek a padlock and lash me in my head and cuff me to my face.”
“As a result, my forehead burst and the side of my eye was swollen.” Lewis told the court that she received a medical from the hospital for her injuries.
Lewis was arraigned on two charges of assaulting the man on the same day. She denied the allegations. She was also charged with malicious damage to property where she allegedly damaged the man’s shirt valued at $2000 – an allegation she also denied.
The 42 year old woman (no address given) was granted $15,000 bail and the matter was scheduled to continue on May 16.
Noble was remanded to prison. He will appear again on Monday for his verdict.
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