KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Sept 10, CMC – A 22-year-old police officer was denied bail and remanded into custody for a week after he appeared in the Kingstown Magistrate’s court on a charge of attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend by stabbing her multiple times.
Senior Magistrate Tammika McKenzie adjourned until Tuesday next week, for bail review, the case in which Kyle Nimblet, had been charged with intent to commit the offence of murder on Rafia Sardine on September 6 this year.
The prosecution alleges that the police officer had illegally entered Sardine’s home, carrying a knife, damaging an aluminium sliding window valued at EC$400 (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents), and attempted to murder Sardine, a 20-year-old sales representative, by stabbing her repeatedly.
The prosecutor, Maria Jackson-Richards objected to bail, saying the offences committed were serious and Nimblet was likely to interfere with the investigation. She told the court the prosecution would need about a week to contact witnesses.
Jackson-Richards told the court that Sardine was discharged from the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital on Monday.
But Nimblet’s lawyer, Grant Connell, argued that the police were on a fishing expedition and that he had received two documents from the commissioner, with one stating that his client was suspended from work without pay, while the other said he had been suspended on half pay.
Connell said his client is still a police officer and a Vincentian national and should be granted bail, with adequate surety or any condition set by the court. He also suggested a curfew.
But the magistrate ruled in favour of the prosecution and remanded Nimblet into custody for one week.
Meanwhile, police are investigating the death of 43-year-old Sharon Elizabeth Ashton, whose body was found at the back of her home in Long Wall on Tuesday.
The police said she had what appeared to be multiple stab wounds and that a post mortem examination will be conducted on the body.
Her death brings to 26, the number of people murdered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines so far this year.
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