Gully Boss Mavado Returns To Court Today

Dancehall artiste Mavado is due to return to the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court this morning when charges of malicious destruction of property and assault will be mentioned. The case was put off until today to facilitate the addition of a medical certificate to the file.

When he first appeared before the judge, attorney Martyn Thomas had requested that the case stemming from a July 22 incident in Belmont, St James be sent to mediation.

This was rejected by Resident Magistrate Carolin Tie who said they should wait until the medical evidence was documented to ascertain the extent of the injury to the complainant before mediation could be contemplated.

The deejay, whose real name is David Brooks, was not asked to enter a plea when he faced the court last month. Thomas, who is appearing along with Christopher Tavares Finson, said they were disputing some of the allegations against Brooks.

The court heard that on July 22 at about 7:00 pm the complainant and his son were in a Toyota Camry along the Belmont main road when they came up on a long line of traffic and pulled off the road. It was heard that a man called 'Fat Eye Dwayne' then came to the driver's door, opened it and slammed it then opened it again and assaulted the man. The court heard that 'Fat Eye Dwayne' slapped the man in his face and then kicked him in the groin.

It was heard that Brooks then drove up in a black Range Rover and told the complainant to move out of the way as he was not going to drive his vehicle over the stones in the roadway which was under repairs.

They complainant, however, refused, the court heard.

It is alleged that Mavado used the wheel of his vehicle to squeeze the man between his car door and the car, causing swelling to his foot and a cut to his shoulder. The court also heard that the damage to the car was about $25,000.

Thomas told the court that it was not just his client who was involved in the incident but other men as well.

Up to the last appearance in court the other men who were reportedly with the artiste at the time of the incident and who are alleged to have assaulted a teenaged boy with a machete, were yet to be apprehended and charged.

Another man, 33-year-old Gregory Lindo who is charged with perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice involving the same case is to face trial next February.

-Jamaica Observer