Georgetown: Alycia Wilson, 29, of 3623 North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, pleaded not guilty to the charge of insulting a polling agent on Election Day.
The charge read that on May 11 at Polly’s Nursery School she insulted and provoked the Virtual Complainant (VC), Eugiene Hercules thereby causing a breach of the peace.
Wilson was on Friday fined $20,000 by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for insulting a polling agent on Election Day.
According to the facts presented by Police Prosecutor Shawn Gonsalves, on the day in question, the VC was acting in the capacity of a polling agent attached to APNU+AFC when at 10:15h the defendant came to the said location and started calling the VC insulting names in a loud tone of voice causing a crowd to gather.
The defendant claimed that on the day in question she went to the Stewartville polling station located on the West Bank of Demerara. She said that when she was finished voting, she returned home and spent the entire day there, denying ever being at the said location. She said that the next day her sister informed her that she was summoned to the police station where they informed her of the allegations and charged her. The defendant called her sister to testify to this fact; however, Melisa Wilson claimed that she only saw her sibling leaving Georgetown in a route 32 bus and later in the day when she was heading home.
After considering all of the facts and testimony presented, the Magistrate found Wilson guilty of the charge beyond reasonable doubt. She was fined $20,000 with an alternative of two weeks in prison. She has three weeks to make the payment.
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