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Two Men To Jail for Beating
posted (March 10, 2016)
30 year-old Shawn Hemmans and 39 year-old Wilfred Fitzgibbon, both residents of Kings Park in Belize City, are in jail tonight after they were accused of badly beating Justin Flowers.

IT happened last week Thursday outside the Wong Gok Restaurant on 6th Street in the Kings Park Area. Flowers was taking a drink outside the restaurant when he was attacked by 3 men. One of them punched him in the face, another struck him in the head with a Belikin bottle. The third man, who remains unidentified, allegedly pulled a piece of wood and clubbed Justin Flowers in the mouth, knocking out several of his teeth.

After investigating the report, police arrested and charged both men grievous harm. When they were arraigned today before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza, Ivan Fitzgibbon pleaded guilty. He told the Magistrate that he struck Flowers over the head with the Belikin bottle because Flowers was acting drunk and belligerent.

Magistrate Mendoza then remanded Fitzgibbon to the Belize Central Prison until March 30. At that time, the magistrate is expected to come up with an appropriate sentence to pass on him. Hemmans pleaded not guilty, but the prosecution the prosecution objected to bail, so he was also remanded.

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