Pigotts man owes over $2K for chopping his friend
A 33-year-old man from Pigotts has been fined $1,000 and ordered to pay compensation in the same amount for wounding his fellow villager and friend.
The sentence was passed down on Monday by Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards in the All Saints Magistrate’s Court.
Last week, Cecil Hixon admitted to chopping his “friend” with a cutlass on May 1.
According to the facts of the case, on the night in question, Hixon arrived in the vicinity of the Pigotts playing field where the complainant and some friends were sitting and drinking alcohol.
For an unknown reason, Hixon began pushing the complainant to the point where the complainant threatened to contact a friend for him.
Magistrate rules there is sufficient evidence to commit MP Browne’s case to the High Court
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The criminal proceeding against former education minister Michael Browne has gone one step further as the case has now been sent up the High Court.
Yesterday, Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards declared that there is sufficient evidence against the Member of Parliament for All Saints West to commit the matter to be tried in the higher court.
The prosecution subsequently proceeded to tender six pieces of evidence which will be used against Browne, should the matter go to trial.
Those exhibits include WhatsApp messages, call records, screenshots from Facebook messenger with photos, etc.
A public official is to stand trial in the High Court in the September Criminal Assizes for Rape and Serious Indecency. The matter was committed to the High Court this morning when the case came up in the All Saints Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate N’gaio Emanuel Edwards.
Under the country’s laws, a defendant in such matters cannot be named unless there is a conviction.
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