{"id":36254,"date":"2023-11-29T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annsvg.com\/?p=36254"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:55:48","slug":"charges-against-lewis-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annsvg.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/charges-against-lewis-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges against Lewis dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case brought against Annamay Lewis, the woman accused of wounding Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves back in August 2021 has been thrown out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Lewis appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate\u2019s Court on August 28, and after several adjournments, it was again adjourned until today when the matter was thrown out.<br>According to a post which appeared on social media by Lewis\u2019 lawyer, Kay Bacchus-Baptiste, she wrote: \u201cI was ready to make arguments but [the] Prosecution still not ready after over two (2) years. Prosecutor was forced to withdraw and case was set for Final Adjournment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The woman, a resident of Layou was charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding the prime minister back in August 2021 during a protest in Kingstown.<br>Lewis was charged with that on August 2021, while in Kingstown, in a public place, she threw missiles to the danger of persons there at the time where she pleaded not guilty, and was given station bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>She was also charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding the prime minister on the same date by striking him to the right side of his head to which she again pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of $3,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The Prosecution however withdrew that charge at the Kingstown Magistrate\u2019s Court on September 15, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>ANN will bring more details in a subsequent story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case brought against Annamay Lewis, the woman accused of wounding Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves back in August 2021 has been thrown out. Lewis appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate\u2019s Court on August 28, and after several adjournments, it was again adjourned until today when the matter was thrown out.According to a post which appeared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charges against Lewis dropped - Asberth News Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/annsvg.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/charges-against-lewis-dropped\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charges against Lewis dropped - Asberth News Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The case brought against Annamay Lewis, the woman accused of wounding Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves back in August 2021 has been thrown out. 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