Remand route

A 32-year-old taxi operator will spend the rest of this month on remand at Dodds in connection with several charges, including assaulting and threatening the mother of his child and assaulting a policeman.

Theodore Anderson Inniss, of Herbert Gap, Codrington, St Michael, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to damaging a car belonging to Chad Ifill on December 30 last year, intending to damage such property or was reckless as to whether such property would be damaged.

However, he denied that on the same day, he assaulted Khadija Ifill, the mother of his child, as well as Police Constable Trimaine Manning in the execution of his duty.

Inniss also said he was not guilty of the charge of assaulting his child’s mother on July 10, 2022 and using the threatening words, “I gine kill you if you leave my daughter home at night” towards the woman, with intent to cause her to believe that immediate violence would be used against her.

Sergeant Verdon Forde, outlining the facts of the criminal damage case, said Khadija was driving the vehicle belonging to her brother, Chad, along the area near Glendairy Prison when Inniss pulled in front of her. He went to his trunk and took out a car jack which he threw at the vehicle’s windscreen.

Sergeant Forde said the prosecution had no estimate of the damage at this time.

He then objected to the accused being granted bail on the other charges, pointing to the nature and seriousness of the offences and the “strength of the evidence”.

Forde said the prosecution believed that the accused would interfere with the complainants or reoffend if released.

But Inniss’ attorney Damian Sands said that the prosecutor’s objections were “unsubstantiated” as his client had no previous convictions that would indicate he had the propensity to commit such acts.

“To suggest that he will reoffend is an error,” the defence lawyer asserted, adding that “no substantial grounds” had been put forward to show that his client would interfere with the complainants.

Pointing to the charge relating to the threat, Sands said it contained the word “if”, which suggested that the “threat was not immediate but conditional” and “it is not legally substantial”.

He added that Inniss was presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

The accused, Sands further submitted, was willing to comply with any bail conditions imposed even though he was injured.

“He has substantial injuries,” the lawyer told the court, disclosing that a fractured rib was among the injuries.

After hearing the submissions of both sides, Magistrate Alison Burke denied Inniss bail and remanded him to Dodds until January 31.