CHELSEA Mearns, 19, of 10 David Rose Street, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown allegedly threatened to murder her ex-lover’s girlfriend, and appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman to answer to two charges.She was granted $120,000 bail.
Mearns is alleged to have made use of abusive and threatening language to Anita Ferreira at Stabroek Market on November 26.
The teenager, who said she was presently unemployed, entered a plea of not guilty on both charges when they were read to her.
According to the prosecutor, Corporal Renetta Bentham, Mearns visited Ferreira’s workplace and initiated a verbal beatdown. In the ensuing argument, Mearns threatened to ‘bore up’ and ‘kill’ the virtual complainant, and cursed her using a series of ‘fs’ and ‘ss’.
Unrepresented by a lawyer, Mearns stood beside her accuser and told the magistrate that: “This… this woman that is standing next to me here, her fiance, her partner, her gentleman, I had an affair with him, and when we broke up, he took my phone away.”
She revealed that when the man called her to collect her cell phone, he told her that it was currently with his girlfriend and she can go and retrieve it there. When she arrived there, she claimed, the victim terrorized her with indecent words.
When the virtual complainant was given an opportunity to speak, she told the magistrate that she was “too old for that, and I warned her to stay away from me; and every time she keeps throwing a lot of slangs.”
Continuing, the woman said she was tired of the torment, and wanted the issue resolved. “I can’t handle it anymore,” the defendant said firmly.
The prosecutor did not object to bail for Mearns, and the magistrate transferred the matter to court 10 for call up on December 10.

(By Jenel Rockcliffe)