Couple accused of confinement of bank worker

A couple was yesterday charged over the wrongful confinement of Bank of Nova Scotia employee William Blackman.

Earl Federicks and his common-law wife Janet Johnson were admitted to bail in the sum of $60,000 each, after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The allegation against is that on February 8, at Georgetown, they wrongfully confined Blackman by preventing him from proceeding to his place of employment. Federicks,