Convict defends man

On April 11, Claxton Bay fisherman Shaffick Mohammed pleaded guilty to the charge before Madame Justice Joan Charles in the Port-of-Spain High Court and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

Mohammed yesterday testified in defence of Auren Grappie also of Claxton Bay, whom he (Mohammed) claimed knew nothing about the drugs prior to the accused man being intercepted by the Coast Guard and Customs officers near Carrera island on November 2, 2002.

Madame Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, before whom Grappie is on trial, heard that the accused was hired by Mohammed to bail water from the pirogue ‘Jason’.