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Daughter accused of stabbing dad remanded in custody
Daughter accused of stabbing dad remanded in custody
By AZARD ALI Wednesday, October 26 2011
CHARGED with stabbing her father in the buttocks on Sunday, Tricia Shah was yesterday denied bail and remanded into custody by a magistrate in San Fernando.
Tricia, 29, appeared in court following arrest at her home on Commission Street, Mon Repos, San Fernando, by police officers acting on a report made by Tricia’s father, Nizam. Yesterday. Tricia was escorted by two female police officers at about 1.15 pm into the Sixth magistrates’ court where she appeared before magistrate Rehana Hosein.
The charge was read to Tricia, a former registered nurse, that on Sunday she maliciously wounded Nizam, at their home. The charge stemmed from an incident in which an argument ensued between the father and daughter, during which the accused stabbed Shah in the buttocks.
Yesterday, attorney Carol Cuffy-Dowlat represented Tricia, whom she said was a former registered nurse.
The attorney asked for bail to be granted, but she also told the magistrate that the father, who had sought medical treatment for the injury, was concerned about his daughter.
Cuffy-Dowlat said that she was of the view that the accused daughter was in need of medical treatment for what seemed as a possible abuse of drugs.
Suggestions that Shah should perhaps stay at the Piparo Empowerment Centre, was made by the attorney, but the police court prosecutor Sgt Dwight Hall, told the magistrate that he was concerned about the accused being free to roam. “If she is in need of treatment, it might be more appropriate to have her incarcerated somewhere,” Halls told Hosein.
Cuffy-Dowlat and Halls, agreed that Tricia be remanded into custody at St Anns Hospital, where she is to be treated appropriately, and to re-appear on November 8.
The charge was read to Tricia, a former registered nurse, that on Sunday she maliciously wounded Nizam, at their home. The charge stemmed from an incident in which an argument ensued between the father and daughter, during which the accused stabbed Shah in the buttocks.
Yesterday, attorney Carol Cuffy-Dowlat represented Tricia, whom she said was a former registered nurse.
The attorney asked for bail to be granted, but she also told the magistrate that the father, who had sought medical treatment for the injury, was concerned about his daughter.
Cuffy-Dowlat said that she was of the view that the accused daughter was in need of medical treatment for what seemed as a possible abuse of drugs.
Suggestions that Shah should perhaps stay at the Piparo Empowerment Centre, was made by the attorney, but the police court prosecutor Sgt Dwight Hall, told the magistrate that he was concerned about the accused being free to roam. “If she is in need of treatment, it might be more appropriate to have her incarcerated somewhere,” Halls told Hosein.
Cuffy-Dowlat and Halls, agreed that Tricia be remanded into custody at St Anns Hospital, where she is to be treated appropriately, and to re-appear on November 8.
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