A man, who claimed to have had a past with a woman whose gold chain he is accused of snatching while armed with an ice pick, was yesterday refused bail, when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Phillip Dover, 28, of 55 Tucville, Georgetown pleaded not guilty to a charge of robbery under arms. The woman’s husband, who was charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Dover, was placed on $25,000 bail.
It is alleged that on Monday, January 14 at Fifth Street, Alberttown, Dover, while using an ice pick, robbed Simone Kingston of one gold chain valued $40,000.
When asked by the magistrate if he wished to say anything, the unrepresented accused said he was walking along the street when he saw Kingston. Dover said that he’d had a relationship with Kingston in the past and so he stopped to talk to her.
However, on the day in question, he said, Kingston refused to speak to him in a civilized manner and began to verbally abuse him. It was while Kingston was abusing him, he said, that her husband approached. Dover said it was Kingston’s husband who initiated the fight, which resulted in Dover stabbing him twice with the ice pick and sustaining an injury himself. Dover tried to convince the court that he could not have stolen the chain as it was a thick one and he would have needed to hit and restrain the woman physically and then use some amount of force to yank the chain off her neck. He reasoned that if he had pulled the chain off her neck, she would have had some sort of scratch or injury on her neck.
Kingston and her husband Sherwin Kingston who were both present before the court denied knowing Dover. The woman stressed that she’d never had any relationship with the accused. She told the court that she was walking along the street when Dover robbed her of her chain, while threatening her life with an ice pick. She said he then ran off and she sounded an alarm to her husband who was walking around the corner towards her. Kingston said her husband pursued the man and caught him and they had a confrontation. It was during this fight, she said, that Sherwin Kingston sustained two stab wounds with the ice pick and in self-defence picked up an object and hit Dover on the left side of his face.
The matter will continue in Court Two on January 24.
