Another suspect in the robbery attempt on a police rank and his family, who were believed to have been trailed from the airport, was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with illegal firearm possession and discharging a loaded firearm at an off-duty rank.
The allegation against Collis Collinson is that on October 7, at Kitty, he unlawfully and maliciously discharged a loaded firearm at Prem Narine, with the intent to maim, disfigure or cause him actual bodily harm.
Additionally, on the same day, he allegedly had in his possession a .38 revolver and three live rounds of matching ammunition without being the holder of a valid firearm licence.
Collinson, 23, pleaded not guilty to the three charges. He stated that he was never identified as being one of the suspects in the crime as he did not take part in an identification parade.
Nevertheless, the unrepresented man was remanded to prison until October 29.
Collinson is the second person to be charged with the attack. Last Wednesday, Shawn Thom appeared before the court for the same offence and he too was remanded to prison.
Thom, who claims to be a vendor at the East La Penitence Market and part-time taxi driver, was shot once to his foot by police ranks who confronted the occupants of a vehicle along Barr Street, Kitty after the off-duty Narine, who had picked up his relatives from the airport, reported his suspicion that he was being followed.
Thom claimed that he was working as a taxi driver at the time and that he had been transporting passengers when he was shot in the right knee by a man who identified himself as a police constable.
“I tell them I is a taxi driver don’t shoot me and they drag me, put a gun to my right knee and shoot and I couldn’t move anymore after that,” he further alleged.
Thom is expected to return to court for the matter on October 28.
