Angelo Lawrence, Gleaner Writer
MANDEVILLE, Manchester:
THE FIVE men, including senior management personnel, from the Super Plus Food Stores in Manchester, who were implicated in the alleged beating of two employees, have been granted bail.
The five - General Manager Jeremy Chen and supervisors, Rayon Lindo, Garth Fagan, Fabian Foster and Ainsley Henry - were yesterday each granted bail in the sum of $500,000 each with one or two sureties, following an application in the Supreme Court.
The bail application was made by attorney-at-law Wentworth Charles before Mr. Justice Basil Reid.
ADDITIONAL CHARGES
The Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) objected to the bail, arguing that additional charges could be laid when it completes a probe into the case in which a gun was reported to have been used. But Justice Reid ruled that the men be granted bail. In addition, the men are to surrender their travel documents and report to the Mandeville Police Station weekly.
Last week, the five men were denied bail when they appeared before Resident Magistrate Maria Bishop in the Mandeville Resident Magistrate's Court. They are expected to return to that court on February 8.
Mr. Chen has been charged with assault, while the other men are charged with assault, unlawful wounding and abduction.
Eighteen-year-old Michael Sinclair of Knockpatrick and 20-year-old Renardo Dawes of New Green in the parish have been treated for injuries sustained in the beating.
The men were beaten after they were accused of stealing three cases of Guinness from the Park Crescent outlet of the supermarket.
The police said the workers were taken three quarters of a mile from the supermarket to a house in the parish where they were beaten.
