$100,000 bail for tax firm executive charged with assault

UPDATE:

A SENIOR partner with auditing tax firm Ernst and Young, Gregory Hannays, has appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court charged with wounding attorney Ravi Dolsingh with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

Hannays appeared before acting Deputy Chief Magistrate Nanette Forde-John in the Fifth Court, where the charge was read out to him. It is alleged that on February 4, at Victoria Gardens, he assaulted Dolsingh.

Bail of $100,000, which was granted at the Four Roads Police Station when Hannays surrendered, was affirmed. He was charged by PC Seechan.

There were no objections to bail, but the police prosecutor asked for Hannays to surrender his passport, as he was deemed a flight risk, and to refrain from contacting Dolsingh.

The prosecutor also alleged that people associated with Hannays had tried to contact Dolsingh.

Hannays’ attorney Gilbert Peterson, SC, objected, instead alleging that people had made numerous attempts to extort $6 million from his client.

He said now that a charge has been laid, “everyone knows the lines are drawn rigidly” and his client will make no attempt to make contact with the victim.

Peterson further submitted that there was no basis for the prosecution to demand the surrender of his client’s passport, as no evidence was provided to substantiate the claim that he was a flight risk. Peterson said Hannays was an accountant who frequently travels because of his job .

Hannays is to return to court on June 5. An attorney from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is expected to be assigned to the case and the prosecution has asked for time for the file to be sent to the DPP’s office.

According to reports, Dolsingh was in an altercation with a man at a house party at Victoria Gardens when the argument became heated.

The lawyer was struck with a drinking glass and was injured on his left temple. He had surgery at the West Shore Private Hospital in Cocorite.

ORIGINAL STORY: 

SENIOR partner with auditing tax firm Ernst and Young Gregory Hannays appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates court charged with wounding attorney Ravi Dolsingh with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

Hannays appeared before acting deputy Chief Magistrate Nanette Forde-John in the Fifth Court where the charge was read out to him.

It is alleged that on February 4, at Victoria Gardens, he assaulted Dolsingh.

Bail of $100,000, which was granted at the Four Roads Police Station when Hannays surrendered, was affirmed. He was charged by PC Seechan.

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