Taxi driver granted $100,000 bail over attempted robbery

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Monday placed an East Ruimveldt taxi driver on $100,000 bail after he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of attempted robbery.

Lennox Angus, 41, was not required to plead to the indictable charge which read that on October 11 he attempted to commit a felony, that is to say while being armed with a gun he attempted to rob Bissondiyal Seepersaud of $600,000.

The court was told that one Afzal Khan and two others are also charged in connection with the robbery and there is