A lawyer begged the magistrate to admit a man to reasonable bail yesterday since he was recently married and would want to be with his wife but the bid was denied and he was remanded to prison on an unlicensed ammunition possession charge.
The allegation is that on September 13 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Isaac Dilmohamed had in his possession one 7.62 round of ammunition without a license.
Attorney-at-law Mohamed Zafar who represented the defendant told the court that his client who is newly wed was actually carrying a key chain with a pendant bearing an imitation of a round stressing that it was not real.
According to Zafar, his client was returning home to French Guiana when he was arrested by police at the airport.
“My worship it was nothing real, it was just a key ring and chain with a pendant looking like a round; it’s nothing real,” Zafar argued.
A relative of the defendant then stood up and presented what appeared to be a key ring with a bullet-shaped pendant. “He only just get marry,” the lawyer stressed.
The lawyer then made an application that his client be admitted to reasonable bail on the grounds that he has no antecedents, has a fixed address, poses no risk of flight and has been cooperating with the police in their investigations.
In his application for bail, Zafar again pleaded that his client was recently married and does not have time to be breaking the law.
“He just got married your worship, he wants to spend as much time with his wife, and he doesn’t have time to be breaking the law.”
However Prosecutor Stephen Telford vigorously denied the arguments advanced by the defence attorney stating that the accused did indeed have ammunition in his possession.
The prosecutor said also that after investigations and examinations were conducted by the police, it was confirmed that the item was ammunition.
Telford then objected to the bail application made by the lawyer stating that the accused poses a risk of flight and may flee the jurisdiction as he is a foreigner.
Dilmohamed was later remanded to prison. His matter was transferred to Court Five for October 19.
