THREE women appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday on separate charges of assault and wounding committed on each other. Marketing Executive of Channel Two, Linda Bhagwandas, 43, of Lot 16 David Rose Street, South Ruimveldt, was not required to plead to the indictable offence, particulars of which said, on November 10, at her home, she unlawfully and maliciously wounded Renata Ifill.
Ifill, 29, of the same South Ruimveldt, Georgetown address and her sister, Pepita Drakes, 20, of Lot 21 Huist T’Dieren, Essequibo Coast, pleaded not guilty to different charges, which read that on the same day in Georgetown, they unlawfully assaulted Bhagwandas.
Ifill is an employee of Eye Care Guyana and Drakes is a teacher at Annai Secondary School.
Corporal Dinero Jones, prosecuting, said the parties had a misunderstanding over a sink, when Bhagwandas took a pot that was with boiling rice on a stove and threw at Ifill, who suffered first and second degree burns to her hand.
The prosecutor said that the incident was reported but, after then, Bhagwandas made a report that Ifill and Drakes threw tins at her.
Attorney-at-law Ms. Kean Trotman, representing Bhagwandas, requested bail for her, stating that she suffers from chronic epilepsy and has no antecedent.
The prosecutor did not object to the application but asked that conditions be attached.
Ifill and Drakes were granted $5,000 bail each and Bhagwandas was ordered to post $50,000 surety.
Meantime, they were all bonded to be on good behaviour until November 26.