REAL NEWS: Security at the St. John’s Police Station and St. John’s Magistrates Court allegedly was breached by a Jamaican woman, last week; and this reportedly has prompted Chief Magistrate Joanne Walsh to threaten to withhold her services if security is not beefed up at the court.
A source tells REAL News that, after she was remanded to His Majesty’s Prison, the woman was found with a large knife.
Early last week, the source recounts, the woman was taken into custody and reportedly charged with malicious damage, then taken before the chief magistrate last Wednesday.
Reportedly, while the charge was being put to the accused, she was acting in a strange manner and kept asking for the investigator.
Concerned about her behaviour, Walsh remanded the woman to allow herself time to make inquiries about her mental health.
It was while the woman was being processed and searched at the prison that the brown-handled, silver-blade knife was found hidden on her person.
It is alleged that the woman told prison officials she had the knife in her possession all the time, even when picked up by the Police.
According to the source, Walsh was immediately notified about the situation.
The chief magistrate was advised that she needs to ensure that police officers search persons, especially prisoners, before they enter the court.
There is concern that the woman could have used the knife she carried to hurt someone, another source says, since, on the day she appeared in court, there were only two officers assigned to Walsh’s courtroom.
There was a male, who was calling up the cases, and a female who stood guard of the prisoners. Therefore, there was no officer to conduct searches of persons entering.
The source says that a senior officer who is attached to the court went on vacation a month ago, and another senior officer followed him; hence, no superior officer was in place at the court last week to assign duties.
Meanwhile, after Walsh was notified of the breach, she allegedly threatened not to go on the bench today, Monday, June 19.
Reportedly, she is demanding that a senior officer be put in place to ensure that subordinate officers are assigned properly, and a full complement of officers is in the court.
According to the source, a senior officer met with the chief magistrate last week and promised that this would be done. Reportedly, this is not the first time the Jamaican woman has been charged with malicious damage. She had a similar charge laid against her last year, according to reports.
At that point it was discovered that she was out of legal time in the country, and the Jamaican Consulate was asked to have a ticket purchased for her to return home. But nothing has been done, to date, the source says.
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Mr. Byam is you tell them to put “Jamaican” in the headline? Remember Richard Lewis wife is Jamaican too – that’s why the lipstick hog don’t want him to lead UPP
Why u don’t want to know the nationality of the criminals? The treachery of the ALP is laid bare.
@ hmmmm if u dont have anything of value to add, why don’t u just shut up! U clearly don’t have anything else to do with your sad life?
The country is tail-spinning and nose-diving and you are trying your very best to distract us from the issues but Odebretch is never going away.
She listened to Baldwin Spencer…but wrong weapon
“SHARPEN U CUTLISS BACK AND BELLY. CHAP DEM UP!!!”
@ Smh
Baldwin didn’t say ‘I WILL THUMP YOU IN YOU MOUTH’ THOUGH- GASTON SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH GBH
Thumping uses the Hand
CUTLISS CHAP UP leads to bloodshed dummy!
These hungry belly people causing all mayhem in the country. She needs to be deported posthaste.
oh my Mr. Byam
we are ONE Caribbean not so?
doon’t be like UPP and Bruce Goodwin calling them “paupers”
Isn’t Antiguans hungry belly also foreigners living better than most of you’ll hence we work hard to achieve what we want and isn’t antiguans living other places and causing mayhem if is one thing you’ll one sided much
No foreigner can live better than me in my place. Ya mad and we call y’all anything we feel like. And Ana all Jamaican come ya and prosper. Sure as hell nooo Antiguan can live a Jamaica and work. To me antiguans make things easier for foreigners. We need to stop that. Name one Antiguan business in a Jamaica
You are so right grudge dem grudge we , we coming here living way better than some of them.
A the wrong set a people you a call hungry belly who love work more than Jamaican a one thing i love about them they work really hard n do any kind of work they get anywhere the work is they find it they dont pick n choose they just work
Mental illness is far more widespread than we think. No one in their right mind would chance taking a weapon into court with them. It is clear that she needs psychiatric evaluation.
Was it mental illness when you accused the Dominica beauty queen of stealing from you??
Stick to your age group if you can’t keep up with spring chicken boss.
An Antiguan man is in pursuit of a former Miss Dominica Pageant contestant, whom he claims defrauded him of over $20, 000 by using his credit cards without permission and making phone calls from his telephones. AUDLEY PHILLIP told Dominica News Online that the young woman spent over $10,000 on his credit cards, as well as making phone calls to Germany and England costing over $4,800.
ARE THERE METAL DETECTORS AT THE ENTRANCES OF THE COURTS? IF NOT,WHY NOT?
real news hate farrin ppl
@BLACK-MAN WE HAVE AN ARMY OF illiterate government officials running our country. That’s why….
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