A father of two who is accused of attempted murder of a man and demanding money with menace from another man was remanded to prison on Wednesday when he appeared before Magis-trate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Thirty-six-year-old Dexter Lynch of Lot 63 West La Penitence Housing Scheme pleaded not guilty to the charge of demanding money with menace from a man with intent to steal it. Lynch was not required to plead to the indictable charge of attempted murder.

It is alleged that on August 7, Lynch caused grievous bodily harm to Mohammed Baksh with intent to murder him.

It is also alleged that on August 17, Lynch demanded money with menace from Sherwin Trotman, that is to say $100,000 in order that Trotman could  be released from police custody.

However Lynch’s lawyer, Mark Waldron stated that the charges brought against his client were ludicrous and malicious in nature. He reasoned that the matter suggested that Lynch had obtained money from Trotman but both his client and Trotman were locked up on the same day and so it would have been impossible for him to get the money from Trotman. Waldron further stated that it was quite strange that Lynch was charged only now with attempted murder even though the offence was said to have occurred ten days before the menace charge that had his client incarcerated on August 17.

However, Prosecutor Sherwin Mathews stated that although Lynch had allegedly committed the menace offence on August 17  he was arrested subsequent to it.

Mathews further stated that the attempted murder charge was only brought against Lynch now because Baksh was hospitalised with bullets wounds about his body as a result of Lynch’s attempts to murder him and the police was only made aware of the matter a while after it had happened.

The magistrate later ordered that Lynch be remanded to prison and transferred the case to Court Five for November 3.