A couple was yesterday charged over the wrongful confinement of Bank of Nova Scotia employee William Blackman.
Earl Federicks and his common-law wife Janet Johnson were admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000 each, after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The allegation against is that on February 8, at Georgetown, they wrongfully confined Blackman by preventing him from proceeding to his place of employment. Federicks, 32, and Johnson, 41, of A61 East La Penitence, denied the charge of wrongful confinement when it was read to them.
No details of what transpired on the day in question were provided to the court. Blackman was not present at court.
Attorney Trenton Lake, who represented the couple, made a request that they be granted reasonable bail.
Lake noted that his clients had no antecedents, posed no risk of flight, had fixed addresses and had been cooperating with police investigations.
Prosecutor Stephen Telford had no objection to the bail request.
Magistrate Octive–Hamilton granted bail and ordered the duo to return to court today for reports and fixture.
