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Desmond Thompson has been a security guard for Bowen and Bowen for the past ten years but today the sixty five year old was in Magistrate’s Court arraigned on the charges of dangerous harm and aggravated assault.

Appearing in front of Magistrate Sharon Frazer he pleaded not guilty to dangerous harm but no plea was taken for the charge of aggravated assault because it is an indictable offence. The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that Desmond Thompson and one of the complaints, Kirk Craig live at the same residence and that Craig’s condition has not yet been ascertained. He remains hospitalized at the KHMH.

The Magistrate upheld the objection and Desmond Thompson is tonight behind bars on remand at the Belize Central Prison until he is scheduled to reappear in court on February nineteenth.

The police report is that on January ninth that an argument erupted between Kirk Craig who is the manager of the apartment where he resides and Desmond Thompson who is one of the tenants. The argument was reportedly over rent money. During the exchange of words Kirk Craig told police Desmond Thompson pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the right side of the abdomen. For that incident Desmond Thompson was charged for dangerous harm.

And then on January twelfth Desmond Thompson allegedly assaulted the owner of the apartment building. In that incident, fifty eight year old Erwin Yorke told police that when he went to Desmond Thompson to inquire about the stabbing of Kirk Craig and the rent money, Desmond Thompson attacked him with a machete.