No threats, says accused

Omar Dacosta Holder, no fixed place of abode, is on remand at Dodds on two charges.

When the 38-year-old appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Tuesday he denied the February 11 charge that he, without unlawful excuse, threatened Pauline Arthur when he uttered the words “This is my father house, if I can’t live in it, I will burn it down” with intent to destroy the house belonging to Gloria Holder Springer.

“I made no such threats, not guilty,” Holder stated before Weekes.

He however admitted that he unlawfully entered the premises occupied by Arthur on the same day having been forbidden to do so.

“I plead guilty to that one sir,” he declared.

Sergeant Victoria Taitt told the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court that police responded to a report at the complainant’s residence. His mother Arthur and sister told the lawmen that they all had agreed that Holder should leave the residence due to his aggressive nature.

Holder was informed but officers had to respond to a second report involving the same parties.

According to the facts read by the prosecutor, Arthur told police that the accused had returned and placed a clothes basket on the inside. Lawmen subsequently  found Holder in a dark alley behind the residence and reminded him that he was not to trespass.

Addressing the Chief Magistrate, Holder, who is known to the court, said “I am aware now that we is republic status now right sir. I want you to know that the police come at my residence, ‘part I live all my life, tell me that my parents [say] that they no longer need me there. I want to know if they have authority? I thought you had to go through the court or something so, for authority to tell me live someplace that I raise all my life.”

He added: “Three policemen come at my house and tell me don’t come to a house that I raise up all of my life, telling me don’t come back to my house just so. My mother call me and tell me come for food and that is the reason I went back there and that is why I plead guilty.”

However when told that Arthur, who Holder said was his “mum”, had levelled the charge against him he said, “That’s what I trying to understand, I want to know what going on . . . it seems vindictive. I was in my bed in my shanty and three policemen come and take me out and tell me I trespassing in a house I live in all my life.”

After ascertaining that Holder had no fixed place of abode, the Chief Magistrate remanded him pending sentencing.

He will reappear before the court on March 8 in connection with the other matter.