Two men were remanded to prison yesterday after they were charged with mugging a man with an icepick.
It was alleged that Charles Stoby, 26, a cane cutter of 15 Uitvulgt, West Coast Demerara and Kelvin McPherson 22, a miner of 70, Belfield, Victoria robbed Edward McCoy of $25,000.
Magistrate Ann McLennan told Stoby and McPherson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts that the charge was indictable and they were not required to enter pleas. In his application for bail, Stoby’s lawyer, Paul-Fung-A-Fat said his client was never charged before. McPherson was unrepresented.
McCoy was not present at the court hearing and Fung-A-Fat said, “He [McCoy] is probably embarrassed, Your Worship, because he picked the wrong person.”
Upon leaving the courtroom, Stoby asked his mother why she had hired Fung-A-Fat to represent him. As the annoyed man left the courtroom, he asked her to seek another attorney.
The case will be called again on Friday at Court Five.
