The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

A MAN, claimed to have murdered his ex-girlfriend and attempted to kill a man during the attack, asked a Magistrate during his arraignment yesterday not to send him to the maximum security at Her Majesty’s Prison.

Oman Ferguson, 33, of Munnings Drive, who stood before Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez facing a charge of murder and attempted murder, made the request through his attorney Stanley Rolle.

Ferguson is accused of murderingTracey Rolle and having tried to murder Renardo Moncur on Saturday, January 12.

The woman and man were at a residence on South Beach Drive off Bougainvillea Avenue shortly after 4am when another man kicked down the front door and forced his way in.

The intruder then stabbed both victims before fleeing on foot. The woman was stabbed several times in her chest and the man, twice in one of his arms.

On arriving at the scene police found the lifeless body of the woman who was pronounced dead. The man was suffering from minor stab wounds and taken to hospital by EMS personnel where he was examined and later released.

Ferguson was not required to enter a plea to the charges. He was told that his case would be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court for trial through a Voluntary Bill of Indictment.

That presentation is scheduled for April 24. In the meantime, Ferguson was remanded to prison until completion of the trial.

However, Mr Rolle said his client wanted the court to see if Ferguson could be held anywhere other than maximum security.

Mr Rolle said that threats have already been put on his client’s life while he was in police custody and it is claimed that the complainant on the attempted murder charge has many connections within the prison, more so than in maximum security.

The lawyer also asked if his client could receive food as Ferguson had complained to him, and looking at his client’s detention record, that he had not eaten since being in police custody.

Chief Magistrate Gomez made a note of both requests before remanding Ferguson to prison.