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After remand…
Schoolteacher on buggery charge allowed bail
THE schoolteacher refused bail on a buggery charge last week was allowed pre-trial freedom on a $100,000 bond yesterday at New Amsterdam Court in Berbice.

Principal Magistrate Krishendat Persaud had previously remanded Delmar Peters, 40, of Lot 40 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, to prison, pending a probation report on the safety of the victim.

However, the accused secured the grant after Probation and Welfare Officer Clement Brusche reported that Peters was interdicted from duty since February 11, to await the outcome of the case.

The report said, as well, that the victim is no longer at the same educational institution but is attending a private school and there is nothing to suggest she would be jeopardised.

Before Brusche spoke, Defence Counsel John Persaud had claimed publication of his name can be prejudicial to his client’s character.

Peters has not been required to plea to the indictable charge which said he sodomised the 14-year-old girl last February 1.

The allegation against the Guyana School of Agriculture graduate said he committed the offence in a bus shed at Canje, also in Berbice, after he had given the student lessons.

The case has now been adjourned to December 12.

 Tuesday, November 22, 2005