NA man jailed while on remand

Jun 02, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

A New Amsterdam man who appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever in the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court, was on May 24, last, sent to jail while he awaits trial for being in possession of house breaking implements, and illegal arms and ammunition.
Malcolm Henry, a 27-year-old miner of Smyth Street, New Amsterdam, was sentenced to three years in prison, and fined $50,000 after he was found guilty of being in possession of cannabis.
According to the case presented by the prosecutor, Police Corporal, Raquel Mars, Henry was the driver of a car proceeding in a westerly direction along the Fort Wellington Public Road, on February 15; last, with three occupants, when the police, outside the Fort Wellington Police Station, conducted a stop- and-search of the occupants as well as the vehicle.
Nothing illegal was found on the person of the individuals searched. However, the police found a quantity of cannabis in a number of zip-lock bags in the car, and the driver reportedly took responsibility for the substance which amounted to ten grams when processed by the police. Henry was subsequently charged and taken before the court.
When the matter was called, the accused denied ownership of the drugs, forcing the court, to conduct a “trial within a trial”to determine the admissibility of the statement which the accused had given to the police. Henry was made to post bail in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars as the police prepared for trial of the case against the accused.
While out on bail, Henry got himself into further trouble when he was with a group of men whom the police intercepted in New Amsterdam in a car with illegal fire arms and ammunition and what were classified as house-breaking tools.
Henry and the other men were charged and remanded to prison. The court ruled that the statement given by Henry in the matter in the West Berbice Magisterial District, was free and voluntary, and so that statement was admitted as evidence in the trial. The accused was found guilty as charged, and sent to prison in addition to being ordered to pay a fine.

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