Pregnant woman remanded for attempted murder

Feb 27, 2018 News

Remanded: Vanessa Crighton

A pregnant mother of six who allegedly dealt a man several stabs about his body with a broken beer bottle was yesterday remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge.
Thirty-one-year-old Vanessa Crighton of Baramita, North West District, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
She was not required to plead to the indictable charge which alleged that on February 23 at First Avenue, Bartica, with intent to murder, she wounded Cecil Hope.
The woman was represented by Attorney-at-Law Latchmie Rahmat, who asked that bail be granted to her client in a reasonable amount.
She added that her client who is six weeks pregnant was attacked by the victim who choked her and dealt her a severed beating.
However Police Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield, strongly objected to bail being granted to the accused citing the serious nature of the offence and the penalty the charge attracts.
The prosecutor added that the victim is still hospitalized at the Bartica Hospital in a critical condition.
Facts presented by the prosecutor stated that on the day in question, Crighton and Hope were involved in an argument, and Crighton armed herself with a broken beer bottle and dealt Hope several stabs about his body.
The prosecutor’s objection was upheld by the Magistrate and the accused was remanded to prison, she will make her next court appearance on March 8 at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court.

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