Two men charged with the kid­nap­ping of UWI em­ploy­ee Maria Dass have been de­nied bail.

Keon Phillips, 35, a plumber, from Clarence Trace, Va­len­cia and Ri­car­do Fe­lix, 21, a labour­er, of 106 Sad­dle Road, ap­peared be­fore a Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trate on Mon­day. They were with­out le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion, as charges of kid­nap­ping for a ran­som and pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion were read to them.

The case will re­sume on Tues­day in the Tu­na­puna court.

How­ev­er, Phillips al­so has been charged with rob­bery with vi­o­lence, af­ter it was found that he was linked to an in­ci­dent in Wood­brook on No­vem­ber 25.

That charge was trans­ferred to the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate Court, where Phillips is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear on Thurs­day.

Dass, 26, was ab­duct­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty's St Au­gus­tine cam­pus in a car park near the book­shop at around 3 pm on No­vem­ber 28.

A ran­som de­mand of $1 mil­lion was de­mand­ed for her re­lease, but po­lice scup­pered that plan af­ter they res­cued Dass near Cau­ra Riv­er less than six hours lat­er.

Two men were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion su­per­vised by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith.

Phillips and Fe­lix were charged last week Fri­day.