No bail for ‘best friend’

[TriniCana]

With ah best friend like dis, who need enemies oui

BY DAVID THURTON
©2005-2006 Trinidad Publishing Company Limited 


Shanice Ramcharan

Reported stolen

A Honda Civic worth $40,000
A $600 bracelet
A $630 brown and black handbag
$760 in cash
A $200 silver guard
A $250 black wallet
A $1,300 LG cellphone
A driver’s permit worth $200
A Western Union card worth $20
A Unit Trust Corporation Card $20


She’s 20; holds a level one in certified accounting, and is charged with Avita Bissoondath’s kidnapping.

Shanice Ramcharan stood in Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with kidnapping for ransom the 21-year-old university student.

As Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor read the charge, Ramcharan’s mother sat in the public gallery.

Her mother also heard the two other charges which Ramcharan faces.

Namely, Ramcharan and others robbed Bissoondath, using aggravation, and abducted and unlawfully detained her at Streatham Lodge in Tunapuna on June 21.

PC Bhagwandeen laid the charges.

Bissoondath was last seen by her family when she left her Soledad Road, Lange Park, home to meet a friend at Price Plaza Mall.

Her burnt Honda Civic motor car was discovered in the Valencia Forest.

Last Wednesday, police rescued Bissoondath from a shack in a forested area off the North Coast Road near Maracas Bay.

The lawmen killed one of her abductors in the shoot-out that ensued.

Bissoondath is the daughter of attorney Darin Bissoondath, and is also a distant cousin of Senior Magistrate Lucina Cardenas-Ragoonanan.

BAIL CONFUSION

Even though kidnapping for ransom is not a bailable offence, both parties, including the presiding magistrate, forgot about the 2005 Bail Amendment Act.

Ramcharan’s attorney Simon Selvon said his client deserved bail, because this was the first time she was brought before the courts. Selvon also added:

“She has six O-Level passes, four A- Levels, a Level One Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and attended St Augustine Community College.”  

While the prosecution objected to bail, it was not for reasons expressed in the act.

“We object to bail on the grounds that the police have to inquire further into the matter,” Cpl Lancelot Samuel said in the Fifth Court.

Baboolal-Gafoor entertained the application, but after hearing about five minutes of submissions between the parties, the magistrate changed her decision.

“What? Why are people asking for bail. A court shouldn’t grant bail for a person in kidnapping for ransom,” Baboolal-Gafoor said.

The magistrate transferred the matter to Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court, and adjourned it to July 2.
 
©2005-2006 Trinidad Publishing Company Limited 

[weary1969]

Dog when he visited my church 2 wks ago said yuh best friend is yuh enemy like he know dat gyal

[Touches]

Word to the wise and foolish....always make sure your friends have more money than you. 




Den they ent go want to kidnap you or rob yuh 

[TriniCana]

Dog when he visited my church 2 wks ago said yuh best friend is yuh enemy like he know dat gyal

But Bob Marley said it best eh...."Ya best friend could be your worst enemy"


but is true...look at it dis way eh
ya best friend knows more about you dan ya own mudda infact ya whole family
who could stab ya deep in ya back
who is dey best person to sell ya out, blackmail ya arse, and even kidnap ya
who knows ya every movement and all ya friends

Ah sure as normal best friends Avita and Shanice had no secrets between them....well except one.
Both educated, just one had more money than the other. ENVY maybe or maybe not. GREED definitely...PEER pressure from the evils of this world, who knows.  Don't be surprise if you ain't hear Avita stage she own kidnapping just to get notice by the family eh.....I won't be surprise. But at least they found one out of the several out there alive still.