Sales clerk on indecent assault charge

Gunness, of Cipero Road, Borde Narve, is alleged to have committed the act on Wednesday at High Street, San Fernando. PC Noel laid the charge.

Before Magistrate Natalie Diop in the Second Court, Gunness pleaded not guilty.

He was unrepresented by an attorney and told Diop he had one pending matter for resisting arrest.

But looking at documents, Diop said Gunness had previously been before the court charged with five offences.

He insisted that apart from the pending matter, all other charges against him, among them larceny and obscene language, had been dealt with.

Diop noted that yesterday was the first time he had appeared charged with an offence of a sexual nature.

She granted him $50,000 bail to be approved by a clerk of the peace and, as a condition of bail, ordered that he have no communication with the alleged victim. He is to reappear in court on July 14.