Trainee-pastor Johnny Griffith, 38, was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer a wounding charge.
It is alleged that on July 3 at Georgetown, Griffith, of 162 Charlotte Street Bourda, unlawfully and maliciously wounded Anthony Richmond.
Griffith pleaded not guilty to the charge of wounding when it was read to him. No details of the case were asked for by the magistrate who said that it will be dealt with at the point of the trial.
Griffith’s attorney, in his bail application, told the court that his client had been previously placed on $10,000 station bail and had been cooperating with the police investigation. Octive-Hamilton, however, informed the lawyer that station bail had no basis for considering the granting of court bail. “They are two different things,” she emphasised.
As he pleaded for his client to be admitted to reasonable bail, the attorney added that Griffith had no previous convictions, posed no risk of flight and had a fixed place of abode. It is on theses grounds the magistrate told the lawyer that bail would be considered.
With no objections by the prosecution, Griffith was later admitted to bail in the sum of $30,000.
The lawyer told the magistrate that his client could only afford $15,000 and asked for a reduction but same was denied.
Griffith was ordered to return to court on November 18.
