A man from Ari­ma with a crim­i­nal record of 25 pend­ing cas­es has been grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with rob­bing a woman at a su­per­mar­ket car park in Ch­agua­nas, last Fri­day.

Nick­ail Julien, 35, of Ma­hogany Dri­ve, Mal­abar, Ari­ma, was grant­ed $75,000 bail when he ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ter Rhea Lib­ert, yes­ter­day.

Po­lice pros­e­cu­tors ob­ject­ed to bail for Julien based on his lengthy crim­i­nal record, which in­cludes pend­ing cas­es for firearm pos­ses­sion, rob­bery and shoot­ing of­fences.

They al­so called on Mas­ter Lib­ert to con­sid­er that Julien was al­leged to have com­mit­ted the re­cent rob­bery while on bail.

In his sub­mis­sions, Julien’s lawyer Bhi­mal Ma­hara­jh chal­lenged the po­si­tion.

Not­ing that his client had at­tend­ed all hear­ings of his oth­er cas­es, Ma­hara­jh not­ed that there was no ev­i­dence he would ab­scond if grant­ed bail once again.

He al­so claimed that his client main­tained his in­no­cence in re­la­tion to the rob­bery as he sug­gest­ed that Julien was hired by two men to dri­ve them to and from the lo­ca­tion.

He al­so not­ed that Julien was not point­ed out by the vic­tim dur­ing an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rade.

As part of his bail con­di­tions, Julien was or­dered to stay away from the al­leged vic­tim and to re­port to his near­est po­lice sta­tion once week­ly un­til his case is de­ter­mined.

The case was trans­ferred to the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Court and will come up for hear­ing on De­cem­ber 16.

Julien was ac­cused of rob­bing the woman along Ram­saran Street in Ch­agua­nas, last Fri­day.

She was robbed of two gold be­ras and a gold chain, to­geth­er val­ued at $15,500. - Derek Achong