Robb St sweets vendor, two others on wounding and assault charges

A sweets vendor and two others were yesterday read wounding and assault charges.

Denzil Benjamin, a sweets vendor of Robb Street, Lacytown; Carton Hazelwood, of West Ruimveldt Front Road; and Debra Payne, were present in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts when they were separately charged and granted bail.

The particulars of the charges state that on January 20, at West Ruimveldt, Benjamin unlawfully and maliciously wounded Debra Payne and Carton Hazelwood. It is also alleged that Payne and Hazelwood unlawfully assaulted Benjamin.