The owner of the White Castle Fish Shop, who was involved in the shooting ruckus last Tuesday at the National Gymnasium, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $500,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Thirty-one-year-old Jermaine Langevine of Lot 11 John and Hadfield Streets, who wore a blank expression as he stood in the dock, was told by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson that he was not required to plead to the indictable charges of felonious wounding and discharging a loaded firearm with intent to cause bodily harm.
He was also told that he had been jointly charged with Mark Goodridge with those offences.
The magistrate subsequently granted Langevine bail in the sum of $150,000 on the felonious wounding charge and $350,000 on the discharging a loaded firearm charge. He is scheduled to return to court on October 6.
The facts of the case are that on September 22, at the National Gymnasium, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Oriely Small with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or cause him actual bodily harm and on the same day and place he discharged a loaded firearm towards Small with the intent of causing him grievous bodily harm or to maim, disfigure or disable him.
Langevine’s lawyer, Gordon Gilhuys, had applied for reasonable bail for him on the grounds that he was suffering from a serious head injury and that he was only discharged from the hospital a short while before he appeared in court.
The lawyer stated that the police had his client’s medical report from the hospital that treated him.
Gilhuys further stated that his client posed no risk of flight and that he was well known in his community. He also noted that his client denies the allegations made against him.
The lawyer stated that two others who were also involved in the incident were both granted bail and his client should not be treated any differently.
Meanwhile, the prosecution told the court that investigations into the incident are ongoing.
The court was also reminded that only one of the men, Vibert Weeks, who was allegedly involved in the incident, was granted bail on Monday, while the other, Goodridge, was remanded to prison when he appeared before the court on Friday.
Weeks was charged with the attempted murder of Jermaine Langevine and inflicting grievous bodily harm on Jason Langevine.
But the prosecution made no objection to Langevine’s bail application and it was subsequently granted.
Police, in a statement last Wednesday, said that around 23:20 hrs on Tuesday, five male persons sustained gunshot injuries at the National Gymnasium, where they were attending a football final. An argument ensued between Small and Langevine, who had sponsored one of the teams in the Inter-pub football final, over a wager.
Police said another man handed the suspect a gun which he fired several times at a crowd standing outside the gymnasium, resulting in injuries to the spectators.
He subsequently fled the scene. The statement added that some time later the suspect was accosted by another man who assaulted him and he had to be admitted to a city hospital.
