Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A 45-year-old woman was yes­ter­day grant­ed $20,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with ob­struct­ing and as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers.

Verona Mungals­ingh-Ghany ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ter Sarah De Sil­va, where she plead­ed not guilty to one count of ob­struc­tion and two counts of as­sault­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer.

Sev­en months ago, Mungals­ingh-Ghany fa­tal­ly shot her hus­band, Steve Ghany Jnr, in an in­ci­dent she re­port­ed­ly told po­lice was an act of self-de­fence. She was not charged in con­nec­tion with his death.

The busi­ness­woman was ar­rest­ed on No­vem­ber 10, along with 25-year-old Daniel Prov­i­dence, at a con­do­mini­um Re­trench Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do. .

Prov­i­dence was charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, two counts of com­mon as­sault, two counts of as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers and re­sist­ing ar­rest.

The charges stemmed from an in­ci­dent in which po­lice of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly went to the con­do­mini­um to ex­e­cute a war­rant for arms and am­mu­ni­tion.

Prov­i­dence al­so plead­ed not guilty.

Through his at­tor­ney, Dane Halls, he ap­plied for bail. How­ev­er, pros­e­cu­tor An­tho­ny Ja­cob ob­ject­ed.

Ja­cob sub­mit­ted that Prov­i­dence had al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to evade ar­rest and point­ed to the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a cus­to­di­al sen­tence, as well as the se­ri­ous­ness of the of­fences, par­tic­u­lar­ly amid the coun­try’s on­go­ing crime con­cerns.

De Sil­va de­nied Prov­i­dence bail and trans­ferred his mat­ter to the San Fer­nan­do Dis­trict Court.

Mean­while, the pros­e­cu­tion had no ob­jec­tion to Mungals­ingh-Ghan­ny be­ing grant­ed bail.

Her mat­ter was al­so trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Dis­trict Court and both mat­ters were ad­journed to De­cem­ber 11.