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Career conman Alister \u2018Tombstone\u2019 Millington-Smith was hauled before the Mespotamia Magistrate Court on yet another deception charge. He was arraigned last Friday on allegations that he, \u201cby deception, dishonestly obtained 66 cases of Hairoun products valued at EC$4434.08, the property of St. Vincent Brewery Limited of Campden Park with the intention of permanently depriving them of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Tombstone\u2019 quietly pleaded not guilty to all 3 offences as they were read out to him by Magistrate Bertie Pompey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prosecutor Renrick Cato promptly objected to Tombstone\u2019s bail which was only interrupted because Magistrate Pompey observed that he had not realized who the accused was even though Cato alluded to his infamy earlier in the arraignment proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the time he requested of the judge, before \u201cthe charges were put to\u201d Tombstone, that an amendment be made to the name that was recorded on the charge sheet from which the alleged offences were to be read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYour Honor, before the charges are read to the defendant, the prosecution is asking for an amendment to add the surname Smith to that surname [to make it] Alister Millington-Smith,\u201d Prosecutor Cato entreated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s well known to everybody as Alister Smith your Honor. I don\u2019t know since when he\u2019s Millington,\u201d Cato continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaybe he\u2019s getting too popular as Millington,\u201d the Magistrate Pompey rejoined as he made the necessary notations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prosecutor explained that Millington was the name in the passport that was brought to Court with the many times convicted conman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou know something? Even at the time when you asked for the amendment, I didn\u2019t know it was this man you know,\u201d Magistrate Pompey, a former Deputy Police Commissioner, observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was writing so I didn\u2019t really look at him but now I look at him he get bigger, unkempt and everything. You have to keep yoself properly man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t see \u2013 and you look older than the person I know as Alister Smith. Where you been all the time overseas?\u201d Pompey continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tombstone took the opportunity to jumpstart his defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes, your Honor,\u201d he began, meekly.
Then, with more conviction, he pressed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYour Honor, if you check my passport the date of what they charge me for, I was overseas. The stamp in my passport to show that I was not even here \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Magistrate Pompey seamlessly interjected, \u201cWell I am not here trying your matter, you say you\u2019re not guilty and that\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point, Cato refocused the Court\u2019s attention on his pending bail objection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes, your Honor. The prosecution objects to bail for the defendant. At the center of this matter, your Honor, a checkbook is involved \u2013 as it relates to this matter, your Honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are other matters that the police are investigating that involves the said checkbook. And your Honor that checkbook is yet to be recovered and we are fearful, if bail is granted to the defendant, that he would hinder or obstruct the investigation as it relates to the recovery of that checkbook, your Honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo, we are asking that he be remanded into custody, your Honor, and that the matters be transferred to the Kingstown Magistrate\u2019s Court at a date, your Honor, maybe the end of August or early September.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bail was denied as was the application to have Tombstone\u2019s latest trial be removed from Pompey\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He would return to Mesopotamia on August 3 for a bail review but until then Tombstone has been \u201cremanded into custody to allow them to continue with their investigations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tombstone, who appeared without a lawyer, also entered not guilty pleas to charges which claims he was caught, in Arnos Vale on July 27, driving without a driver\u2019s permit and the vehicle he was using, PA813, was uninsured.
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