{"id":22715,"date":"2018-12-17T23:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=22715"},"modified":"2018-12-17T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:17:19","slug":"st-vincent-case-against-former-model-who-alleged-affair-with-government-minister-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/st-vincent-case-against-former-model-who-alleged-affair-with-government-minister-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"ST.VINCENT-Case against former model who alleged affair with government minister dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-2209103057\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Postpaid_Come Cross Postpaid 1200x400_Opt.1_1\"><img 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https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-544245644\" class=\"antig-before-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medicalbenefitsscheme\" aria-label=\"mbs may\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-may.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-may.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-may.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:341\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-may.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-may.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(IWN)<\/p><div id=\"antig-1252456309\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:675\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:842\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett has dismissed for want of prosecution the insulting language charge against 23-year-old former model, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/all-about\/yugge-farrell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yugge Farrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magistrate\u2019s decision at the Kingstown Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday came in response to an application by Farrell\u2019s lawyer Grant Connell, and counsel Kay Bacchus-Baptiste, who had a watching brief in the case.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2241262227\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Postpaid_Come Cross Postpaid 1200x400_Opt.1_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-324941532\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1320\/h:730\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5614.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1320\/h:730\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5614.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:166\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5614.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:566\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:425\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:696\/h:385\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5614.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1320\" height=\"730\"   \/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Farrell spent one month in court-ordered psychiatric evaluation after she was charged on Jan. 4, 2018, that on that date she used insulting language to Karen Duncan-Gonsalves \u2014 wife of Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves \u2014 by calling her \u201ca dirty b**ch\u201d.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1574599231\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:675\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:842\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When the matter was called, prosecutor Corlene Samuel told the court that the prosecution was withdrawing the charge against Farrell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Connell noted that the prosecution was making a decision three weeks short of one year since Farrell was charged.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1891621131\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"500X500\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500X500.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500X500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500X500.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/500X500.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He further noted that there had been no disclosure in the matter and said that by withdrawing the case, the prosecution was leaving the door wide open to prosecuting his client again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacchus-Baptiste told the court that she was agreeing with Connell.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1036817152\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"IMG_1115\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1115.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1115.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1115.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1115.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1115.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She told the court that she had received a letter from the Director of Public Prosecution last Wednesday in which the DPP has used the word dismissed.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3979396820\" class=\"antig-content_6 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Postpaid_Come Cross Postpaid 1200x400_Opt.1_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Postpaid_Come-Cross-Postpaid-1200x400_Opt.1_1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>iWitness News understands that no such communication was sent to Connell, who has been representing Farrell from the date of her Jan. 5, 2018 arraignment when she asked him, in court, to represent her, which he has done pro bono.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbadian Queen\u2019s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim, who on Jan. 29, took over from Connell as lead counsel in the matter, did not appear in court on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After leaving the court, Farrell, who wore a flowing black outfit, black sandals, black gloves, and what appeared to be a wig, made the same hand gesture she had made on her Jan. 4. 2018 arraignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Farrell pleaded not guilty to the charge on Jan. 5, Samuel immediately asked the court to send her for psychiatric evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magistrate Bertie Pompey had granted the application amidst strong protest by Connell, who noted that the prosecution had offered no information in support of their application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Jan. 29, Burnett, who, in an unrelated development, took over and became the Kingstown Magistrate,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/2018\/01\/29\/former-model-yugge-farrell-granted-bail\/\">granted Farrell bail<\/a>&nbsp;after receiving the report from the psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He ordered her to return to court today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has triggered national and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/2018\/02\/23\/uwi-lecturer-protests-against-gonsalves-in-barbados\/\">regional outrage<\/a>&nbsp;against the legal system and political establishment in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, especially after Farrell\u2019s claim that she was in a years\u2019 long sexual relationship with the finance minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The finance minister has not responded to Farrell\u2019s claim, apparently choosing to follow the advice of his father, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, to maintain&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/2018\/01\/16\/pm-continues-to-speak-on-scandal-throughout-camillos-dignified-silence\/\">\u201ca dignified silence\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister, a lawyer, however, had commented extensively on the case, saying, among other things, that in arriving at a decision,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/2018\/01\/11\/magistrate-can-consider-info-not-disclosed-in-open-court-pm\/\">a magistrate can consider information not disclosed in open court<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farrell is alleged to have used the insulting words toward the prime minister\u2019s daughter-in-law when Farrell allegedly handed to Duncan-Gonsalves what the prime minister called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/2018\/01\/11\/embattled-model-delivered-blackmail-letters-pm\/\">a \u201cblackmail\u201d letter<\/a>&nbsp;at Duncan-Gonsalves\u2019 then office at the Attorney General\u2019s Chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister said that amidst Farrell\u2019s alleged demands was EC$50,000 and that the charges against her parents, Gailene Farrell and Calvert Charles, be withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gailene and Charles were before the court on unrelated attempted murder and arson charges and were discharged in July after the prosecution told the Serious Offences Court that police had misplaced a crucial piece of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One week later, however, the couple was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwnsvg.com\/2018\/07\/17\/yugges-parents-to-be-tried-for-attempted-murder-arson\/\">committed to stand trial on the same charges<\/a>, that on Nov. 1, 2017, at Lowmans Bay, they attempted to murder Edward Durrant, a fellow villager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gailene has told iWitness News that she had heard about the alleged relationship between the finance minister and her son and had told the prime minister, last year, what she had heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister, however, has denied having such a conversation with the model\u2019s mother, saying that when she came to see him last year, they spoke about a job for Yugge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"antig-3056698278\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 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for want of prosecution the insulting language charge against 23-year-old former model, Yugge Farrell. The magistrate\u2019s decision at the Kingstown Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday came in response to an application by Farrell\u2019s lawyer Grant Connell, and counsel Kay Bacchus-Baptiste, who had a watching brief in the case. 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