MONTEGO BAY, St James — Dancehall artiste Mavado is seeking to avoid going to trial in his latest brush with the law as his lawyers yesterday asked that his case involving charges of malicious destruction of property and assault be sent to mediation.
The deejay, whose real name is David Brooks, faced the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday but was not asked to enter a plea.
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Attorney Martyn Thomas, who is appearing along with Christopher Tavares Finson for the entertainer, said while the accused man was disputing some of the allegations stemming from the July 22 incident in Belmont, St James, they would prefer if the case went to mediation instead of a trial.
Resident Magistrate Carolin Tie ruled, however, that they should wait until the medical report was on the file before deciding what to do. She then ordered that Brooks be fingerprinted and return to court on September 29 when the case would be mentioned.
The court heard that on July 22 about 7:00 pm, the complainant and his son were in a Toyota Camry along the Belmont main road when they came upon a long line of traffic and pulled off the road, which was dug up. It was alleged that a man went to the driver's door, slapped the man in his face and then kicked him in the groin.
It was further alleged that Mavado then drove up in a black Range Rover SUV and told the complainant to move out of the way as he was not going to drive his vehicle over the stones, but the complainant refused. Mavado, it was alleged, used the wheel of his vehicle to squeeze the man between his car door and the car, causing swelling to his foot and a cut to his shoulder. Damaged to the vehicle was estimated at $25,000.
Thomas told the court that it was not just his client who was involved in the incident but other men as well.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Mavado-prefers-malicious-destruction-of-property--assault-case-going-to-mediation_9417987#ixzz1Uk6mZBBn
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