Customer service rep on bond after wounding and assault charges

A customer service representative who on Monday had separate charges of unlawful wounding and assault read to him by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson was ordered to pay court costs and placed on a bond when the complainants in the matter refused to offer evidence against him.

Ekeziel Edwards, 20, of YY 21 North East La Penitence pleaded not guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding Terry Campbell on May 13 at Croal Street.  He further denied the charge that on the same day he unlawfully assaulted Nissar Tawahie to cause him actual bodily harm.

Campbell and Tawahie said that they did not wish to proceed since Edwards’s mother is related to them.

The prosecutor told the court that on the day in question, the men, who are the driver and conductor of a minibus, allegedly put Edwards out of their bus for disorderly conduct.

Later in the day, when he saw the men on Croal Street, he attacked them resulting in their injuries.
He was fined $20,000 court costs and placed on a one-year bond to keep the peace.