'Send me Balo' - Kawa Cornwall tells Snr Magistrate
Ignorance
Cornwall was before the court to plead to the offense of possession of a controlled substance as occasioned on November 20, 2014 in Scatliffe Alley, Tortola. He pleaded not guilty to the offense.
He had another case in the court for common assault for which he was previously placed on bail. The man’s ignorance of the law became evident when the Senior Magistrate told him that the same person who posted bail for him in the common assault matter couldn’t do so for the possession of a controlled drug charge.
Arrogance
In an arrogant move Cornwall told the Magistrate, ‘Send me balo cause me aint going through all dis,” as he aggressively accused the Magistrate of purposely trying to give him a hard time. However the Magistrate at the time was calmly trying to work out with the accused the possibility of him securing someone else to sign for bail on his behalf.
However the man became even more infuriated and insisted that he be sent to Her Majesty’s Prison and even told the Magistrate “Do what you want” as he became loud in the court and had to be whisked away to the holding cell at the Magistrate's Court.
Drop and run
In the allegations read in court it was said that on November 20, 2014 the accused was seen sitting on a wall in the vicinity of Chris Bar packing something into a small bag. As the officer turned and was approaching the accused he allegedly dropped a paper bag and ran in the direction of Scatfliffe Alley.
As he ran he also allegedly dropped a quantity of small ziplock bags/dime bags. He was pursued by the police officers who managed to catch hold of him. They told him of the brown paper bag and he denied knowledge of it.
According to the allegation the brown paper bag contained a large quantity of small zip lock bags and a large plastic. Each contained what was suspected to have been cannabis. It amounted to 250 grams when weighted.
Kawa Cornwall, a born Tortolian, is a construction worker who resides at Long Bush. He will be returned to the Magistrate’s court on October 5, 2015 for report.
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She try to be Judge Judy but does a POOR job at it.