27-year-old DEON Braithwaite of Lot 10 Durban Street, Georgetown was yesterday ordered to post bail in the sum of $90,000 on charges of damage to property and assault, to which he pleaded not guilty before Georgetown Magistrate Judy Latchman.

Particulars of the offence are that on Sunday, July 28, at the Georgetown Prison, he damage one regulation shirt, property of the Guyana Prison Service, and unlawfully assaulted Odetta Melville so as to cause her actual bodily harm.
Attorney-at-law Mr. Fung-a-fat, representing Braithwaite, told the court that his client is a father of two and is working at a water factory. He said his client claimed prison authorities were going to give him some mad injection, and he refused to take it.
Police Sergeant Vishnu Hunt, prosecuting, objected to bail being granted on grounds that the defendant was an inmate at the Georgetown Prison and the victim was a nurse at the said prison. On the day in question, he received injuries after he had been taken down from the roof, and he was taken into a room. He took a chair and broke a light bulb, and hit the nurse on her back.
Sergeant Hunt said Brathwaite committed the offences while being an inmate at the prison; and if granted bail, he would not return for his trial, and would tamper with the witnesses.
Magistrate Ann McLennan placed him on $80,000 bail on another offence. He said that on the day of the mishap, he was beaten by four wardens, three of whom he named in court, and as a result of this, he sustained injuries to his back.
Sergeant Hunt indicated that Nurse Melville had received scratches to the left ears, injuries to the lower back and laceration to the right palm.
Braithwaite pleaded with Magistrate Latchman, saying that his life was in jeopardy should he be returned to the prison, because the authorities would beat him up.
The defendant was committed to stand trial in the High Court on Tuesday, August 6.
Particulars of that offence state that on October 31, 2012, at Durban Street, Georgetown, Brathwaite attempted to murder Safraz Ghani.
The prosecution’s case is that, at about 01:35 hrs on October 29, 2012, the defendant attacked the VC with a pitch fork, inflicting several stab wounds about the VC’s body, and using the handle of the said weapon to hit the VC, resulting in the VC sustaining injuries to the left hand and foot, and stab wounds to the chest.
The victim was picked up in an unconscious state and admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) before later being discharged.
After several adjournments during the preliminary inquiry (PI), Police Sergeant 14863 Neville Jeffers had produced several witnesses to substantiate his case, including the virtual complainant (VC) as the main witness; hence a prima facie case had been made out, and Brathwaite will appear in the next Demerara Assizes.