NIGEL Innis of Broad Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, is today scheduled to be arraigned in the Georgetown Magistrates Court on six charges related to the alleged robbery and battering of a Mahaicony businesswoman and her supermarket staff during a robbery committed two weeks ago.The 56-year-old accused was reportedly positively identified by the victims last Tuesday, after being discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital last Monday.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed to this publication that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that charges be instituted against Innis as follows: four counts of robbery under arms and one count each of illegal possession of arms and illegal possession of ammunition.

According to information reaching this publication, Innis had no visual impairment until the day he committed the robbery and lost his sight after he was accidentally chopped by farmers weeding their plantation, even as he lay flat among bushes, hiding from the police who were also searching the area for him and two other accomplices.

The police have already been able to charge two persons in connection with the Mahaicony supermarket robbery; they allegedly were associates of Innis in the execution of that robbery.

One bandit was captured by residents and police on the day of that robbery, while Innis and another alleged bandit were captured on the following day. One other accomplice has reportedly managed to slip under the radar, but the police are hunting for him.