Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday granted a woman bail when she appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly giving the police false information about an alleged death threat.
Anaira Sealey, 33, of Prashad Nagar, had pleaded not guilty to the charge of supplying the police with false information.
She denied that on August 27, she gave Sergeant Gibson, a public officer, false information which accused her husband, Captain Hope of threatening to kill her when she knew this was false, causing Sergeant Gibson to injure her husband.
However, Sealey’s lawyer, Adrian Thompson stated that Hope did threaten to kill his client and that when he was beating her at her shop located in Orange Walk someone other than his client had called the police.
He said that when the ranks arrived they intervened in the altercation and took both Sealey and Hope to the police station.
The lawyer went on to say that his client was kept in police custody and was later charged.
He said that according to his client, Hope had become abusive to Gibson while they were at the police station which resulted in a fight.
He added that Hope was a captain in the Guyana Defence Force.
He said that his client had never told the police that her statements about the death threat were false and so he was baffled as to why his client had been charged for telling the truth while Hope, who was the alleged abuser, was not charged.
Thompson said that this was not the first time that Hope had assaulted and threatened his client. He further said that Hope was currently in the custody of the army. He then requested that his client be released on self bail.
The magistrate subsequently granted Sealey bail in the sum of $25,000 and ordered that she return to court on September 28.
