Lodger jailed for assaulting night shelter guard

A lodger of the East La Penitence Night Shelter will be taking up residence in the Camp Street jail for the next month after he was found guilty of assaulting a security guard.

Leon Daniels, 23, had pleaded not guilty when the assault charge was first read to him by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond in Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 10.  According to Prosecutor Jomo Nichols, on January 29 Daniels had been smoking in the compound of the shelter when he was seen by Janice Haywood,