A 29-year-old man from Cunu­pia, ac­cused of serv­ing as the get­away dri­ver for a man who dis­fig­ured a woman in an acid at­tack in Rio Claro ear­li­er this month, has been grant­ed $250,000 bail.

Ren­ny Ramkissoon was grant­ed bail as he made his first court ap­pear­ance for at­tempt­ed mur­der be­fore High Court Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Ramkissoon was not called up­on to plead to the charge, which was laid in­dictably.

Ac­cord­ing to the sum­ma­ry of ev­i­dence in the case, the at­tack oc­curred as the 20-year-old vic­tim was stand­ing along the Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road in Rio Claro around 3.55 pm on Au­gust 11.

A man dressed in a Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) uni­form walked up to her and threw a liq­uid in her face be­fore flee­ing in a wait­ing ve­hi­cle that was parked near­by.

The woman was tak­en to a med­ical fa­cil­i­ty by a passer­by.

Po­lice re­spond­ed to the scene of the at­tack and found an emp­ty bot­tle of muri­at­ic acid.

She was ward­ed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal be­fore be­ing dis­charged.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were able to iden­ti­fy the li­cence plate of the get­away ve­hi­cle us­ing CCTV footage of the at­tack cap­tured by cam­eras at near­by busi­ness­es.

Ramkissoon was ar­rest­ed al­most two weeks lat­er af­ter he was found dri­ving the ve­hi­cle.

He de­nied any wrong­do­ing, al­leged­ly claim­ing that he had been asked by an ac­quain­tance to pick up the sus­pect, whom he did not know, in Rio Claro.

He claimed that the man got in­to his car in haste and asked to be dropped off in Tabaquite. He ad­mit­ted that the man paid him $450 af­ter drop­ping off at the lo­ca­tion.

Dur­ing the hear­ing, po­lice pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Cortez re­quest­ed that Ramkissoon be de­nied bail un­til in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived the re­sults of his crim­i­nal record trac­ing.

Ramkissoon’s lawyer, Bhi­mal Ma­hara­jh, chal­lenged the re­quest as he point­ed out that the pro­ce­dure could have been com­plet­ed in time for the hear­ing, as his client was ar­rest­ed on Au­gust 23.

Ma­hara­jh al­so said his client was amenable to any con­di­tions the court may be mind­ed to at­tach to bail, in­clud­ing elec­tron­ic mon­i­tor­ing.

Sgt Cortez said that in­ves­ti­ga­tors on­ly took Ramkissoon’s fin­ger­print im­pres­sions for the trac­ing on Thurs­day.

He ad­mit­ted that they were not pre­clud­ed from ini­ti­at­ing the process be­fore de­cid­ing to charge Ramkissoon.

Mas­ter Gray even­tu­al­ly de­cid­ed against ad­journ­ing the case based on the re­quest from the po­lice.

She al­so con­sid­ered the ev­i­dence against Ramkissoon, who she not­ed was not al­leged to have com­mit­ted the ac­tu­al at­tack on the vic­tim.

As part of the con­di­tions of his bail, Ramkissoon was or­dered to re­port to his near­est po­lice sta­tion four times week­ly un­til his case is de­ter­mined.

He was al­so placed on an 8 pm to 5 am cur­few and was or­dered to stay 800 me­tres away from the vic­tim and to re­frain from re­turn­ing to Rio Claro.

Mas­ter Gary set dead­lines for the fil­ing of ev­i­dence and sub­mis­sions in the case and set June 16, next year, for the suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing.

Ramkissoon is sched­uled to reap­pear in court for a sta­tus hear­ing on April 21, next year.