Tenza Lane, the young woman charged with assaulting Samuel Hinds Jnr, had all the charges against her dismissed yesterday at the end of her trial.
Lane, 18, had been charged late last month with two counts of threatening behaviour and one count of assault causing actual bodily harm. It was alleged that she had behaved in a threatening manner towards Hinds and his fiancée, who is her sister, and that she had assaulted the man.
Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond yesterday dismissed the charges against Lane after finding that the prosecution failed to prove that she was guilty.
At the last hearing, Prosecutor Colin Primus made his submission, asserting that a prima facie case had been established against Lane on all three charges. Several days earlier, Lane’s lawyer, Simone Morris-Ramlall, had submitted that there was no case against her client, especially in light of the prosecution’s failure to