Despite objections from the prosecutor, Attorney-at-law Shadia Simpson secured $3,000 bail for a client accused of issuing a serious threat to another person.
It is alleged that on April 8, last year Ronnie Leroy Glasgow, of Lower Wellington Street, The City uttered the words, “I gine shoot you if you come back on the beach” to Ambian Hunte which caused the complainant to believe that immediate and unlawful violence would be used against him.
Police Constable Kevin Forde objected to bail for the accused based on the nature and seriousness of the offence and the “high degree of probability” that the accused could carry out the threat since his antecedents showed he had a propensity to commit such an offence.
However, Simpson countered the arguments saying that the offence was allegedly committed over six months ago and there was no evidence before the court to show that there was any follow through. She added that there were also no further reports by the complainant with regard to her client.
The lawyer also argued that her client’s last conviction was in 2005 and he had stayed out of trouble with the law and now owned a business in Wellington Street.
After considering the submissions Magistrate Douglas Frederick ruled in favour on the defence and ordered that Glasgow, who had moments before pleaded not guilty to the charge, reappear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on May 28.
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