TWO of four Magistrate’s Court defendants, who moved to the Berbice High Court for bail, were successful while the other two failed to secure the grant before Justice Winston Patterson.

Vallisen Haynes and Amanda Whyte were each, on Wednesday, ordered to post $75,000 surety but Mareno Richardson, charged jointly with them for alleged possession of ammunition without the licence, is to remain in prison pending his trial in the lower Court.

Petitions for all three were presented by attorney-at-law Mr. Adrian Anamayah. The allegation against Haynes, 21, of Lot 118, Number 77 Housing Scheme, Corriverton, Whyte and Richardson, of Number 52 Race Course, Springlands, another part of Corentyne, is that they had one .38 bullet that was allegedly found on a wall divider.

Whyte and Haynes were never previously prosecuted but Richardson, 24, previously faced two charges of robbery under arms last December 6.

The accusation against Richardson is that, in company with others, at Princetown, Corriverton, he robbed Natasha Narain, at gunpoint, of four cellular phones, a portable DVD player, a laptop computer, a diamond ring, five gold rings, a gold chain and a pair of gold earrings, a total value of $484,000.

Richardson is also accused of robbing Devika Narine of $300,000, on December 6, too.

Justice Patterson also rejected the petition of arson accused Dennis Evans, who is charged with setting afire to the dwelling house of his common law wife, Seeta Persaud.

The petitioner was previously charged with assaulting Persaud, by using a hammer and forcibly removing some of her teeth and he had been on $25,000 bail in that case.

Evans, a 33-year-old cane harvester, of Lot 23 Armadale, West Coast Berbice, is alleged to have unlawfully and maliciously set the building afire on November 11 when the woman and her children were inside.
He is to be back in Court on January 20.