Cas­san­dra Thomp­son

Clint Alex­is, 25, of Bread­fruit Al­ley in Ar­gyle, To­ba­go, was de­nied bail yes­ter­day, when he ap­peared in court for the at­tempt­ed mur­der of British cou­ple, Pe­ter and Muri­um Greene. He ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate An­nette McKen­zie in Scar­bor­ough Court, where de­fence at­tor­ney Lar­ry Williams claimed that Alex­is was beat­en while in po­lice cus­tody.

He al­leged that he was hit on the head with a gun butt and in his ribs with a ba­ton. McKen­zie asked if he knew any of the of­fi­cers who beat him, and he said it was the "Trinidad po­lice." Williams said Alex­is was not fed for three days while he was in cus­tody. He was ar­rest­ed last Mon­day, and he said he was giv­en fried chick­en and bread on Thurs­day and Fri­day. He then was "giv­en food" on Sat­ur­day, and was vom­it­ing since. Williams asked that Alex­is be grant­ed bail, but the po­lice ob­ject­ed, say­ing that the vic­tims were still in hos­pi­tal and the sever­i­ty of the crime was al­so a cause for con­cern. The mag­is­trate then de­nied bail and ad­journed the mat­ter to Thurs­day, next week. Alex­is was shield­ed from the me­dia by the po­lice.

There was al­so a high po­lice and army pres­ence at the court, as about 300 fel­low vil­lagers blocked roads from about 7 am, claim­ing that Alex­is was in­no­cent. Mean­while, Muri­um Greene was re­leased from hos­pi­tal, and was sched­uled to leave for Lon­don last evening. Her hus­band re­mains in the In­ten­sive Care Unit of the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Com­plex in Mt Hope, where of­fi­cials said he was show­ing signs of im­prove­ment. Greene and his wife were chopped about their bod­ies at their Ba­co­let home on Au­gust 1.