Decision in Grove woman’s human trafficking trial set for July 29

A Plantation Grove woman who was charged in February with three counts of trafficking a 16-year-old girl for labour, will hear the Chief Magistrate’s decision on July 29.

After Police Prosecutor, Inspector Neville Jeffers, ended his submissions, Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan ordered that the defendant Joyce Lawrence return to court on that date for her ruling in the matter.

Lawrence, 43, of 306 Track X, Plantation Grove, was read three charges which stated that between July 1, 2014 and December 12, 2014, at a nightclub, at