By Jeff Trotman
A woman has been ordered to reappear in the Linden Magistrate’s Court on January 6th, 2015 on a charge of assaulting the assistant to Prime Minister Sam Hinds during an APNU protest in October.
Leoni Alexander appeared at the Linden Magistrate’s Court on November 5th after she had been informed by someone who had been at the courthouse the previous day that a warrant had been issued for her arrest.
When Alexander appeared in court she was placed on $15,000 bail and placed in the holding area for remand prisoners until the bail money had been paid. She has been accused of assaulting Eon Halls, the Linden assistant of Prime Minister Hinds.
The alleged assault stemmed from a PNCR-APNU protest outside the Egbert Benjamin Centre on October 18th as Prime Minister Hinds and Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill met with PPP/C supporters.
The Wismar woman was arrested and charged on the 20th October after Halls had reported to the police that she had assaulted him at the end the meeting. Alexander told Stabroek News on October 21st that she was in her bed around 9 am on the previous day when she heard a loud knocking on her door. When she opened the door she saw about five police officers,