A MAN appeared at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court last Friday charged with supplying prohibited items, to wit, cigarettes and a lighter, to a prisoner.

Magistrate Zamilla Alli was told that on Sunday, 8th December 2013, twenty-four-year-old Paul Kissoon supplied Caesar Kissoon, a prisoner in custody at Cove and John Police Station for alleged rape, with prohibited articles, namely, eight cigarettes and a lighter.
The defendant who pleaded guilty to the charge told the court that he went to a shop not far from the police station to purchase something for the prisoner to eat, and while on his way back, someone gave him a bag to give the prisoner and he was unaware of its contents.
After listening to the claim by the accused, the magistrate entered a not guilty plea and set the matter for trial.
Police Prosecutor John Singh raised no objections to the man being granted his pre-trial liberty. The defendant was then released on $40,000 bail by Magistrate Alli and the matter will be called again on January 8, 2014 for report.

(Odella Patterson)