–for attempted murder over misunderstanding

A 26-year-old Hadfield Street, Lodge man was on Friday committed to stand trial at the High Court for attempted murder by Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan.
Following months of preliminary inquiries, Osafo Swain, called ‘Saffo’, was committed to stand trial before a judge and jury.
The matter was prosecuted by Inspector Neville Jeffers, while Swain was unrepresented.

Swain is charged with discharging a loaded firearm at one Hubert Blair in an attempt to commit murder on July 26, 2017 at Georgetown.
He, after the Magistrate’s ruling, made an application for bail pending his hearing in the High Court, but the prosecutor objected on the grounds of the victim’s safety and that he poses a flight risk among other factors.

In the end, the Magistrate ruled in the prosecutor’s favour, and remanded Swain pending his hearing at the High Court.

According to reports, Swain, who had known Blair for the past five years, had accused him of withholding the identities of the two men that had torched his home earlier that year.
On July 26, Swain rode up on a motorcycle while the victim was in his yard and discharged several rounds at him. The victim was hit in the groin and about his body.