A clothes vendor was placed on $20,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday after he pleaded not guilty to damaging the car bumper of Dexter Garnett.
It is alleged that on January 12 at America Street, David Wilson unlawfully and maliciously damaged the front bumper of motor car PJJ 4281, property of Garnett.
In his defence, Wilson, 28, of 283 A Field, South Sophia said Garnett had parked his vehicle at the entrance of a building where there was a ‘no parking’ sign. He told the court that Garnett moved the sign and when he put it back, Garnett then moved the sign across the road. Wilson said that when he again tried to replace the sign, Garnett “drove the bumper into the people ‘no parking’ sign when I was putting it back.”
However, Garnett said that the business was closed at the time and Wilson was on the opposite side of the road playing draughts, and “he come over to prove a point.” Garnett said Wilson threw the sign at his car.
The cost of the damage to his bumper, he said, was $35,000. When Magistrate Robertson asked Wilson if he wanted the matter to go to trial or to be settled, he chose a trial, saying that he did not throw the sign at the car.
They will to return to Court 10 on February 10.