A businesswoman is now free on $20,000 bail after she was charged with assaulting and verbally abusing her neigbhour.
Marcia Phillips, 38, of 110 Second Street, Alexander Village, refuted the police’s case that she, on March 1, at Second Street, Alexander Village, assaulted Francina Lynch, causing her actual bodily harm.
Phillips further denied that at the same place, on February 23, she used abusive language on Lynch during an argument.
Phillips was placed on bail by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond and the case was adjourned until April 7 for trial.
Also appearing before Magistrate Chandan-Edmond were Clairmonte Ellis and Leon Nero, both charged with committing crimes against each other.
When the case was first called before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, Ellis pleaded not guilty to the prosecution’s assertion that he, on March 8, at Meadow Brook Squatting Area, threatened Nero with a cutlass. He was granted self-bail and the case was transferred to the court of Magistrate Chandan-Edmond for the reading of the charge against Nero.
Nero, a garbage collector, denied that he unlawfully assaulted Ellis on March 8, at Meadow Brook Squatting Area. He also denied that on the same day, at the East La Penitence Police Station, he behaved disorderly.
With no objections to bail from Prosecutor Jomo Nichols, the magistrate set bail for Nero at $15,000.
The case will be called again on April 7 for trial in Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 10.
