HIGH Court Judge Navindra Singh on Friday, July 12, 2019, released the owner of Mark Interior Communication Inc. on $500,000 bail for the charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

Mark Grimmond, 57, the owner of the communication service, along with Mark’s Pool Side and Fun Park located at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was charged alongside Chatterpaul Singh called Kevin, 36.

It is alleged that the men, between April 1, 2018, and June 7, 2019, at Georgetown, they conspired with persons known and unknown to murder Lethem businessman Dwayne Grant.

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court will, on July 24, commence the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the conspiracy to commit murder.

On Friday, Grimmond’s attorney, Bernard DaSilva, made an application at the High Court for his client to be granted bail. Justice Singh granted Grimmond $500,000 bail.
According to reports, Grant is a businessman who lives in Lethem and had received a ‘tip-off’ that Grimmond had hired someone to execute him.

The businessman became fearful for his life and reported the matter to the police, who went to a Hotel in Lethem and found Singh with an illegal firearm in his possession.
The police is contending that Singh, while in custody, told the investigator that he was hired by Grimmond to kill Grant. Grimmond was arrested and the police found telephone records between the men.