Woman appears in court on missile-throwing charge

KINGSTOWN (CMC):

A 56-year-old woman, who had been charged with wounding Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves during an anti-mandatory vaccination protest last August, appeared in court Tuesday on a charge of throwing a missile in the city.

The charge of wounding Gonsalves, who had to be flown to neighbouring Barbados for medical treatment, was withdrawn last year, but Annamay Lewis, a vendor, was slapped with a charge that on August 5 last year, at Kingstown, in a public place, she threw missiles to the danger of persons who were present.

But the case has now been adjourned to February 9 after the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court was told that a key prosecution witness was under quarantine.

Lewis, who also complained of being unwell, attended the hearing and Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett adjourned the matter to next month.