(Barbados Nation) Sobbing loudly that he did not want to go to prison, Barbados’ boxing star, Anderson Fitzgerald Emmanuel, was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds yesterday when he appeared in court charged with committing robbery.
The 26-year-old heavyweight boxer, who was the National Sports Personality 2006, was not allowed to plead to the indictable charge that on July 24, he robbed Russell Whyte, of four bracelets valued Bds$4 500, two rings valued Bds$8 400, a chain valued Bds$2 000 and Bds$3 000 in cash, when he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Graveney Bannister.
Emmanuel, a Commonwealth, CAC and Pan Am medallist, resides at Fairway Gardens, Christ Church. In October he secured a Pan Am bronze medal for Barbados.
Prosecutor Sergeant Rudy Alleyne objected to bail for Emmanuel on the grounds that the offence was of a serious nature; that Emmanuel had recently been taken into police custody; another person was being sought and that if he was given bail the possibility existed that he would interfere with the virtual complainant; and he might not turn up for his trial.
