By Mia Anthony
Twenty-four-year-old Melissa David, of New Market Street, North Cummings-burg, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where she was charged with the attempted murder of her partner.
It was alleged that on May 22, at New Market Street, Georgetown, she attempted to murder Edmond Moses by setting him on fire.
David was not required to plead to the charge.
Prosecutor Quincy Lacon, told the magistrate that on the day in question at around 16.30 hours, Moses was in his apartment and left a sum of $18,000 in his wallet. As he was about to exit, David asked him for money to buy Ensure to which he replied that she should use her own money to buy it. An argument eventually ensued and David picked up a container filled with what was suspected to be gasoline and threw it at Moses, then using a lighter, set him on fire.
