Clavil Graham, the 71-year-old mother of a murder convict, was yesterday brought to a city court on a charge of assault after she allegedly threw a liquid at the state prosecutor who secured the conviction.
Graham, of M16 Green Valley, Wismar, Linden, was brought before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in Georgetown, where she pleaded not guilty to the assault charge.
It is alleged that on February 28 at the Supreme Court, she assaulted prosecutor Tiffini Lyken.
Graham asked to explain herself to the court after giving her plea. She stated, “After my son get the life sentence, he had a bottle between his legs and he threw it on the prosecutor. I went and pick up the bottle to throw it away but I didn’t find no bin so I walked out the courtroom and went out the court compound with the bottle.”
She added that while on her way to catch a bus, the prosecutor approached her and told her that her entire family would go to jail just like her son. The woman said, “When she approached me, she said I done jail your son and all y’all going to jail. I was surprise at the prosecutor behaviour, so I tip the bottle and lil water touch her.”
Graham told the court that after the incident, some police ranks approached and arrested her for assaulting the prosecutor.
Graham was released on $10,000 bail with the condition that she report to the Wismar Police Station every Friday until the conclusion of her trial. She was advised to make her next court appearance on April 23rd at Court 11.
Graham’s son, 51-year-old Gavin Graham, was given three life sentences on February 28. Moments after the sentence was handed down, he reportedly hurled a plastic bottle filled with liquid, suspected to be urine, at the State Prosecutor.
At the time, he was being escorted to the prisoners’ holding area at the High Court. Graham was sentenced by Justice Sandil Kissoon after he was found guilty of the murders of N’kosi Abrams, 39, her boyfriend Shawn Whyte and her 68-year-old stepfather Clifford Sampson. The murders happened in 2015, when Graham set the house the trio occupied on fire.
Pandemonium followed Graham’s actions as the liquid was spilled on the prosecutor, the files and also the furniture in the courtroom.
