Pastor bailed on indecent assault charge

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday granted a pastor, who is accused of indecently assaulting a women, bail in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Forty-three-year-old Romanah Yankanah, a father of five of Lot 606 Bell West, Canal No.2, West Coast Demerara had pleaded not guilty to an indecent assault charge when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

He denied that on July 27, at Meten-meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, he indecently assaulted a 21-year-old female.

Prosecution Sherwin Matthews made no objections to Yankanah’s bail application and the magistrate subsequently granted it.

The magistrate then ordered that Yankanah report to the Leonora Police Station every Friday at 15:00hrs beginning from August 28 until the commencement of his trial.
He will return to court on September 24.