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Vigilance man on $30k bail for wounding fiancé

Mar 21, 2025 News

Kaieteur News- A 31-year-old man was on Thursday placed on $30,000 bail when he appeared at the Vigilance Magistrates’ Court to answer an unlawful wounding charge.

The accused, Curtis Farley, of Vigilance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara (ECD) appeared before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce.

Farley harmed his business partner and fiancé Rolene Lewis on February 3, 2025 at the said address. He pleaded guilty with explanation after the charge was read to him.

He told the court that on the day in question he was working at his ‘bicycle shop’ when Lewis approached him with a cutlass and attempted to chop him.  The man said that while trying to escape he fell and his hands came in contact with a wood which he used to hit Lewis.

Lewis reportedly hit Farley to his head but being unsatisfied, she lit his house on fire. Luckily, the fire was extinguished by neighbours.

Lewis was charged with arson and is on remand.

Meanwhile, Magistrate Scarce after hearing Farley’s explanation changed his plea to not guilty citing self-defense. Farley was originally granted $40,000 bail. However, he pleaded with the magistrate for a reduction since he did not have money.

“Sir, I only got $600 in my name, I don’t have nobody in the country that can help me. I have a one-month-old son and if I go to jail, I don’t know how he gon get milk and pampers.” Farley begged.

Magistrate Scarce after hearing Farley plea reduced his bail to $30,000 with conditions that he reports to the Vigilance Police Station every other Saturday. Court was adjourned to March 25, 2025.

(Vigilance man on $30k bail for wounding fiancé)

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