TWO men and a woman appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday, on individual charges of robbery under arms.

After the application of the Administration of Justice Act (AJA), Samantha Primo, 33, of Lot 50 Castello Housing Scheme, Georgetown; minibus conductor Chaven Williams, 22 and 18-year-old mason Lasaul Duke (no addresses given), all pleaded not guilty.
Particulars of the offences said, on Sunday, May 19, in South Road, Georgetown, the three defendants, being together armed with a knife, robbed Haricharan Persaud Nacknan of one Blackberry cellular phone, one silver chain and $10,000 cash, making a total loss of $75,000 to the virtual complainant.
In addition, it was also alleged that on the same occasion, they used a knife to rob Intiaz Ally of one ‘TA’ cellular phone and $4,000 cash, amounting to $11,000 value.
Police Sergeant Vishnu Hunt, prosecuting, said Primo was on South Road for business that night, and after they proceeded to her yard, the other two defendants arrived and robbed the victims.
The prosecutor said investigations revealed that Primo and Williams are sharing a relationship.
But attorney-at-law, Mr. Paul Fung-A-Fat, representing Primo, told the court that a grave injustice was done to her because she was in her yard having a ‘manaj-at-wah’ when the two other defendants came up and robbed the men and are implicating the woman wrongfully.
Williams declared that the only relationship he and Primo share is that of being neighbours.

NIGHTLY BUSINESS
Primo revealed to the court that she, normally, engages in nightly business, on King Street, for money to send her son to school. She said, that night, she was in South Road when she approached the two virtual complainants and asked them if they wanted do business for $2,000 but she went on bargaining and they said they only had $1,500.
She claimed Nacknan told her he wished to have anal sex with her but she refused to do that for $1,500.
Nacknan said Primo is lying and denied having any business relations with her.
He said he and his friend Ally were walking on the road when Primo approached them with the business proposition and, subsequently, the other two defendants relieved them of their property.
Nacknan said, after the other two men came up, Primo called out to one of them by a name and said to him: “You will put me in trouble.”
The prosecutor, successfully, objected to bail for the trio, citing the sentence the offences attract, the weapon used, the likelihood that, if the defendants secured the grant, they will not return for trial and that Duke has a simple larceny case pending in another court.
The defendants were remanded to prison until June 3 but when Williams and Duke were handcuffed together and led out of the courtroom, there was a scuffle between the former and one of the policemen.
During that incident, Duke’s pregnant common-law wife was crying and begging for him to be let loose by eight police ranks carrying the defendants to the second floor of the court building in a continuing brawl that damaged a wall of Court Five that had to be patched with scotch tape.