TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Derrick Norton, a mason of Lot 146 Cooper Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, appeared last Thursday before Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer a charge of assaulting Police Corporal Mandela Cummings, a peace officer acting in execution of his duties, on Thursday, March 20, in Cooper Street.Norton pleaded not guilty to the charge, and was placed on $15,000 bail.

And 24-year-old Dacia April of the same address, a nurse attached to the Palms, was also charged in relation to this matter. She pleaded not guilty to the offence of obstructing Police Constable Griffith, a peace officer acting in the execution of his duties, on the same day, place and time as stated in the offence for which Norton was charged.

Police Corporal Dinero Jones, prosecuting, did not object to the pretrial liberty of either defendant, so April was also placed on $15,000 bail, and the case was put off to April 8.