TWO men were remanded to prison yesterday on a joint charge that they gun butted and robbed a Kaieteur News office assistant.

Nineteen-year-old Jamal David Cromwell and Nykoseye Gittens, 18, (no addresses given) appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and pleaded not guilty to robbery under arms. Particulars of the offence said, on November 18, in Broad Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, at gunpoint, they robbed Shaum Persaud of motorcycle CF 4664 valued $410,000.
Police Inspector Burgette Grant, prosecuting, successfully objected to bail for the duo, based on the seriousness of the crime.
The prosecutor said the virtual complainant was on Broad Street where he stopped at a shop to have a drink and parked his motorcycle.
Minutes later, the two defendants went up to him and demanded the motorbike key and, when he refused to hand it over, Cromwell lashed him on his head, then shot him on his left side thigh.
The defendants then took away the key for it and made good their escape on the motorcycle, the court was told.
The prosecutor added that Gittens was first arrested and he admitted committing the offence and Cromwell was held subsequently.
However, Gittens claimed that police beat him and forced him to confess to the crime.
The magistrate ordered the prosecutor to launch an investigation into the claim made by the defendant and proffer charges on the policemen if necessary.
Meantime, the case will be called, again, on December 17.