It was a calm and humble Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Pryce who appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday to answer to the charge of unlawful wounding.

Bounty, who pleaded not guilty, was dressed in a white long sleeve shirt and a black pants. The dancehall artiste said nothing, except to answer to his plea and allowed his attorney, Christopher Townsend, to speak on his behalf.

The deejay was remanded after Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey refused an attempt by his attorney to secure bail for him. Townsend in his plea for bail said that his client is a victim and that there was some disparity in the medical report.

RM Pusey refused bail on the grounds that some nine months ago the accused appeared on a similar charge.

Allegations are that about 5 a.m. on September 17, the 19-year-old complainant called Bounty and they agreed to see each other. It is also alleged that when the complainant went to Bounty's apartment she saw him outside and he invited her inside. While inside she said a man who was there touched her on her chest, "I figured he was checking my heartbeat," she said.

It is alleged that the complainant went into Bounty's bedroom, where she could hear Bounty and the man conversing. Afterwards Bounty reportedly went into the room took off his shirt and jewellery and started beating her all over her body with the chain, causing bruises and swelling. The complainant said she ran to a washroom where she alleges the accused grabbed her by the neck and said, "like how you bleeding, ah better mi jus kill you an done because dat is a sign seh you should die."

The complainant who claimed she has known the artiste for three years, also alleged that while she tried to use a cellular phone to call her mother, Bounty approached her with a hammer that he used to beat her in her knees and head.

She also told the police that he used an electric insect swatter, that resembles a tennis racket, to beat her. She told the police that after the incident Bounty asked for a massage which she gave him and then they slept together.

The 19-year-old woman who said she is intimately involved with Bounty also alleges that he asked her to do some household chores which she did. He later hugged her, gave her US$100 and J$2,000. She said she left for home, changed her clothes and went to the doctor.

She reported the incident on Saturday at the Constant Spring Police Station. It is also alleged that while at the police station the complainant said, "I have been calling him for two days now, he should have answered and this would not have happened."