PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
A 14-YEAR-OLD secondary school student who claimed he was kidnapped while on his way to school has been charged with faking his kidnapping. He is to reappear in court today.
Lyndon Gooding, a form three student of Trinity College (East), was granted TT$20,000 (US$3,200) bail when he appeared before a Justice of the Peace late Friday. He was later released in the custody of his mother.
Gooding, of Mandarin Circle, Santa Rosa, in the eastern part of the country, had previously told police that early last Monday while on his way to sit exams, he got into a car thinking it was a taxi.
Gooding returned to his home on Thursday morning and told his mother that his kidnappers panicked after they saw a story on television about his abduction and set him free.
Investigators from the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, however, did not believe his story and following further questioning, Gooding was charged with wasteful employment of police time.
