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.
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
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