A Santa Cruz man was yesterday denied bail when he appeared before a San Fernando magistrate charged with beating a teenage girl and kidnapping a 25-year-old man.
By Reshma RagoonathPolice rescued both victims from a house on Jarvis Street, St Joseph Village, San Fernando, on Tuesday afternoon.
David Danclaire, aka Darren Miller, 24, appeared before acting Deputy Chief Magistrate Indra Ramoo-Haynes charged with the indictable offences.
He was also jointly charged with Samson Jones, 22, Christopher Wolf, 24, and Marlon Brown, 23, with kidnapping Keston Edmund on September 19, and falsely imprisoning him.
The charges were laid indictably and they were not called upon to plead.
Danclaire was charged separately with beating 18-year-old Marissa Gonzalves with intent to do her grievous bodily harm and demanding $3,000 from her by menace.
Wolf was also charged with assaulting Olivere Paul on September 14 at Jarvis Street, St Joseph Village, San Fernando.
Sampson was also charged with possession of marijuana.
Ramoo-Haynes denied the quartet bail and advised them of their right to apply to a judge in chambers. They appeared without legal representation.
They four were arrested in the raid at Jarvis Street.
Officers of the Crime Suppression Unit (CSU) and Marabella station went to the house around 1 pm, after they were informed by Gonzalves? mother that her daughter had been kidnapped.
When the lawmen went into house, they allegedly found the teenager badly beaten. She suffered a fractured skull, injuries to her neck and several broken ribs.
The four men were charged with Edmund?s kidnapping.
However, Gonzalves refused to press kidnapping charges against them.
They are to reappear on October 1.
