Zaman Deen of 17 Belvoir Court was chopped by cutlass-wielding men and left lying in a pool of blood on November 12, 2009. And yesterday an alleged attacker made an appearance in court charged with unlawful wounding and malicious damage to property.
Rajkumar Ganesh, 36, of 1 Bel Air Village was not required to plead to the indictable charge of unlawfully wounding Deen on November 17, 2009.
However Ganesh pleaded not guilty to unlawfully and maliciously damaging one panel door valued $35,000, property of Deen.
Attorney-at-law Faye Baker in her application for bail told the court that her client is a hot dog vendor who works every weekend on the seawall. He is a father of twins and the sole breadwinner in his home and sole provider for his elderly father who is unable to move around. She further said that her client has never before been charged for any offence.
Meanwhile, Deen told the court that Ganesh and two others attached him in his sleep. Ganesh told him, “be time he leave and reach way he going I gon be dead,” after dealing him several blows to the body. Deen also told the court that the men took his wallet and bicycle which they placed in a white car and drove off.
This newspaper had visited Deen back in November when he was a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital and he had to undergo immediate surgery. Deen had sustained chop wounds to his left hand and foot and was bruised about the body.
When he was in court yesterday Deen’s hand and foot were still bandaged and he was walking with the support of a crutch. He told the court that he is due for another visit to the hospital and this was confirmed by Prosecutor, Inspector Stephen Telford.
Telford did not object to bail but Ganesh’s bid for bail was denied by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. He is to return to Court 10 on January 18.