Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted a father of six, who allegedly wounded several persons, bail in the sum of $250, 000 yesterday when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Peter Grannum, 33, of Tabatinga, Lethem, pleaded guilty to the charges of felonious wounding, malicious damage to property, robbery with violence and two counts of unlawful wounding.
It is alleged that on December 19, at Tabatinga, Lethem, Grannum unlawfully and maliciously wounded Jenelle Williams so as to maim, disfigure or cause her actual bodily harm.
It is also alleged that on December 19, at Tabatinga, Lethem, Grannum robbed Williams of two gold chains valued $65, 000 and used violence to commit the act.
It is also alleged that on December 19, at Tabatinga, Lethem, Grannum unlawfully and maliciously damaged a glass door valued $50, 000 and a refrigerator valued $54, 000, property of Carol Martin.It is also alleged that on December 19, at Tabatinga, Lethem, Grannum unlawfully wounded Ashanti Bascom and Nadine Martin. Granum stated that the incident was as a result of him rebuking his child mother (Williams).
He explained that on the day in question he had answered Williams’s cell phone and a male had asked who he was and what he was doing with her phone. He said that he and Williams got into an argument because of that. “My worship she don’t want me with anybody, jus like two weeks ago she beat ah woman out me house, run de woman out with a kitchen knife”. He said that after the argument he went out and “I had a lil drink to vanish these things off mey he head cause I din know what foh do”. Grannum went on to say that when he returned home Williams apologised but that soon after the phone rang again and it was the same person. He said that they got into an argument again and she told him “I should not tell she who to talk to on she phone”. He noted that he then slapped Williams in her face but that Williams’s brother had seen when he did it and soon after approached him with a cutlass and chopped him to his back, chin and fingers. He said that Williams and Nadine Martin then picked up a piece of wood and started to beat him and that “it was while I dey fighting she (Williams’s) brother to tek away de cutlass that we crash into de glass door and it break and cut Jenelle and she sister”.
The magistrate then entered a not guilty plea for Grannum on the charges against him.
Meanwhile, the prosecution stated that Williams sustained chops to her right thumb and lower leg, while Bascom sustained a chop to her right foot. They stated that Carol also sustained a chop to her right thumb.
The magistrate subsequently placed Grannum on bail and ordered that he return to court on March 3.