No bail for man with many names

It has been 30 years since Dwayne Sheldon Phillips was born and still he has not been registered.

Phillips was in court yesterday and revealed that he uses many names because he was not formally registered at birth.

Resident Magistrate Georgiana Fraser then asked Phillips why he did not attempt to register himself since he reached adulthood.

Phillips replied that he was told that he will be unable to register himself now because he is unable to read.

Phillips was charged with forgery of passport, forgery, uttering forged documents, obtaining forged documents, and conspiracy to deceive.

Allegations are that on September 2, Phillips went to the TRN office downtown to correct his date of birth.

TRN office

Checks at the TRN office later revealed that there were some irregularities with Phillips' application.

The fraud squad was later alerted and Phillips interviewed by them.

During the interview, Phillips gave his mother's name as Yvonne Parchment,however, the birth certificate he presented in the name Dwayne Mullings had his mother's name as Millicent Granston.

He was asked to explain and gave no comment.

Phillips' mother was later contacted and gave his name as Carl Phillip.

His sister was then contacted and gave his name as Paul Austin.

The true identity of the accused is yet to be ascertained.

RM Fraser had advised the accused that," Mr Phillips, I can't offer you bail because I don't know your proper name".

DOG KICKED TO DEATH

A 19-year-old man who allegedly kicked a dog to death causing the animal to be thrown at least 20 feet in the air at the impact of the kick, faced the court yesterday.

Charged with cruelty to the animal is Leroy Hewitt, a labourer, of a Greenwich Avenue address.

Hewitt pleaded not guilty.

Allegations are that on August 26, the accused was observed by two police officers committing the malicious act of kicking the mixed-breed dog in its belly, causing its death afterwards.

A woman who flogged her brother after his goats ate her plants told the court she did it because she was fed up.

Simone Cameron, a 40-year-old farmer, of Point Hill district, St Catherine, pleaded guilty with explanation to assault occasioning bodily harm when she appeared before Resident Magistrate Marcia Dunbar-Green yesterday.

"Mi 'rana' yes mi lick him pan him han wid a rock stone afta him mek him goat go nyam dung mi field maam. It did hurt mi real bad as mi work very hard fi plant mi field," Cameron told the court.

She told the court that she farms yam, banana and plantain along with other cash crops.

The complainant who was in court denied the accused man's claims.

"A lie she a tell your Honour a she an har boyfriend try to tief mi ram goat when mi ketch dem a dat time dem beat mi in a mi neck back," Kevin Cameron said.

Allegations before the court are that on August 10, the complainant was severely beaten by his irate sister who confronted her brother after she caught one of his goats in her field. The much taller brother was given a sound beating.