– for allegedly threatening to kill GECOM Chair, her entire household
A LINDEN man who allegedly threatened to kill Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, was on Monday charged with the offence, but granted bail in the sum of $500,000.
Appearing before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the Linden Magistrate’s Court, via Zoom, was Ryan Williams of Silvercity, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).
He was charged, under the Cybercrime Act 2018, with using a computer system to compel a person, but through his lawyer,
Attorney-at-law Stanley Moore, he pleaded not guilty of committing the offence.
It is alleged that on July 13, 2020 at 17:58hrs, Williams, using a fake Facebook account with the fake name, “Raheem Raahman”, threatened to kill Justice Singh and her entire household.
The post reads, “If you Claudette Singh think you will declare fraudulent votes so that the PPP will win, well, think again, bcuz you and everybody in ur house will f**king dead.”
According to Linden’s Police Commander, following an investigation spearheaded by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Williams was arrested by Linden Police at his Silvercity home on July 15, 2020.
Besides being granted bail, Williams was required to lodge his passport as a precondition to obtaining his freedom.
He is also required to report to the Crime Officer-in-charge of Region 10 every Friday, and is to make his second court appearance on August 3, 2020.
Source: https://issuu.com/guyanachroniclee-paper/docs/guyana_chronicle_epaper_07_21_2020