A British national and her Trinidadian husband were granted bail in the sum of $125,000 each when they appeared in court yesterday charged with possession of marijuana and ammunition.
Andrea Lloyd and her husband Nigel Lloyd, of Caratal Road, Gasparillo, came before Second Court Magistrate Siumongal Ramsaran in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court.
The pair were represented by attorney Subhas Panday. The charges were laid by PC Lee Lum of the Marabella Police Station.
When Ramsaran asked Andrea to enter a plea, her husband responded from the prisoner’s dock, telling the court: “She don’t have nothing to do with this you know, is all mines.”
However, Ramsaran told him he could only make that statement if he was entering a guilty plea.
“You can’t plead not guilty and claim responsibility for the items,” Ramsaran told him.
After conferring with Panday, the defendant told the court he would keep his not guilty plea.
According to the charges read by Ramsaran, around 4.30 pm on Monday October 12, PC Lee Lum went to the couple’s home with a search warrant. During the search, police allegedly found 17 grammes of marijuana, 31 rounds of .380 ammunition and one round of .38 ammunition.
He arrested the pair and later charged them.
Yesterday, Ramsaran told them as a condition of their bail, they would have to surrender their passports to the court.
He granted them bail in the sum of $125,000 each with surety by a clerk of the peace. He also approved Panday’s request for a cash alternative, setting the cash alternative at $25,000.
The matter was adjourned to
Friday.