Painter Released on Bail After Weekend at Dodds Prison: Court Case Update

After spending the long weekend at Dodds Prison, a painter has been released on bail.

When she appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes last Friday, Niandra Dakota Moore of Hallet’s Terrace, Black Rock, St Michael pleaded not guilty to using the threatening words, “I would shoot he through he head and I ain’t care nothing about the police either. I would shoot wunna cause I don’t give a **** bout de police” to Kerry Ann Burnett and Zidaniel King on December 29, which caused them to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against them.

Objecting to bail at that time, prosecutor Sergeant Randolph Boyce spoke on the seriousness of the offence, raising concerns about the treatment of police officers in the country.

“Police officers should be able to do their jobs without being threatened with being shot in their heads. This is an attack on the state. Police are human beings as well and need to be protected when they are carrying out their functions,” he stated.

Moore, however, denied that she had been speaking to the officers when she used those words, saying her comments had been directed to a man in the neighbourhood.

“And this is the kind of approach you would use?” Chief Magistrate Weekes asked before remanding her to Dodds for three days to “settle a little”.

When she reappeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, there were no further objections to her release, and she was placed on $4 000 bail.

Moore returns to court on May 7 and is represented by attorney Martie Garnes.