Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson remanded a 30-year-old construction worker to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday accused of having a quantity of cannabis.
Andrew Wilson of 102 Light Street, Alberttown entered a not guilty plea to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
He denied that on September 15 he had 40 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.
His lawyer Adrian Thompson stated that the cannabis was not found on his client but in a latrine in an open yard.
He noted that the yard has a house and several persons live there. He said that no one was at home at the time and his client was in the neighbouring yard.
Thompson went on to say that his client had no linkage to the cannabis but “the police had to charge someone since they found drugs.”
He then applied for bail for Wilson stating that he had presented to the court a special circumstance for the offence to be bailable.
Police Prosecutor Denise Griffith stated that her facts about the case were different.
She said that on the day in question Wilson was seen by a mobile police patrol running into a fenced yard and into a latrine where he discarded the cannabis.
She said Wilson then ran out of the yard and into another yard where he was apprehended by the police.
Griffith said that when the policemen made checks in the latrine they found the cannabis.
She also stated that when the police confronted Wilson with the cannabis he offered them $20,000 for them to drop the matter against him.
He was then arrested, cautioned and later charged for the offence.
The prosecutor objected to Wilson’s bail application.
The magistrate subsequently ordered that Wilson be remanded to prison and transferred the matter to Court Five for October 22.
