Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Twin broth­ers, Mar­lon and Melvin Phillip, along with an­oth­er man, were de­nied bail yes­ter­day when they ap­peared be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate charged with sev­en of­fences, in­clud­ing rape and kid­nap­ping. The Phillip broth­ers, 34, and Nico­las Bowen, all of En­ter­prise, ap­peared be­fore First Court Mag­is­trate Gillian Scot­land charged with the in­dictable of­fences. The twins are charged joint­ly with break­ing and en­ter­ing in­to a house in En­ter­prise on June 9, 2012 and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a woman. They al­so are charged with rob­bing a man of a flat screen tele­vi­sion and us­ing per­son­al vi­o­lence.

Melvin is charged sep­a­rate­ly with rob­bing a woman of a bank card and a quan­ti­ty of cash and us­ing per­son­al vi­o­lence against her. He al­leged­ly com­mit­ted the of­fences on Jan­u­ary 17, 2012 to­geth­er with an­oth­er per­son. He is al­so charged with un­law­ful­ly tak­ing the woman and car­ry­ing her away and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing her. The three men are joint­ly charged with hav­ing a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion in their pos­ses­sion with­out a firearm user's li­cence. They al­so are charged with hav­ing a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion in their pos­ses­sion with in­tent to en­dan­ger life at To­ba­go Road, En­ter­prise. The men were al­so charged with shoot­ing at po­lice with in­tent to cause griev­ous bod­i­ly harm. Scot­land re­fused the men bail as they had oth­er mat­ters. They will reap­pear in court on Ju­ly 9.