Bryan remanded to Dodds

Objections from the prosecution led to a 43-year-old man being remanded to Dodds Prison on Friday, after he denied assault and trespass charges.

Dwayne Omar Bryan appeared before Magistrate Alison Burke in the District ‘A’ Traffic Court, where he denied two charges arising from incidents on August 28: assaulting Ryan Alleyne and unlawfully entering premises from which he had been forbidden by occupier MacArthur Barrow.

Prosecutor Station Sergeant St Clair Phillips opposed Bryan’s release, arguing that the accused had no fixed place of abode, had allegedly been armed, had threatened workers on the compound, was known to frequent the area, and might intimidate the complainants.

“We do not know if it would escalate higher than it has today,” Station Sergeant Phillips said.

Bryan, however, insisted he had a home at Lower Civilian Road, Bush Hall, adding, “The court knows I would not be harming anyone.”

He insisted that the complainants were always coming around him and he had a knife because “they would injure me, I wouldn’t injure them”.

Magistrate Burke remanded him until September 26.