A female resident of Bequia will stand trial on a charge of lying to the court under oath.

Jesgil Letteen, who resides in Hamilton is charged that she, on October 8, 2018, at Kingstown, having been lawfully sworn as a witness in proceedings at the Serious Offences Court (SOC), willfully made a statement in that proceedings which she knew to be false or did not believe to be true.

Letteen entered a ‘not guilty’ plea at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court (KMC) and bail was set in the sum of $2500 with one surety.

The case has been adjourned to August 30.

It is said that Letteen was a witness in the case involving Berisford Williams as the accused. Williams was a 33-year-old electrician when he was charged in December, 2017 that he, with malice aforethought, caused the death of Andel Muckett by shooting him in his head and leg. Williams was also charged that on the same date, December 24, 2017, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Muckett’s girlfriend, Jesgil Letteen.

However, the public is most familiar with Letteen because articles were published in September, 2017 where she alleged that she was suffering abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, including claims that she had been beaten about the body with a cutlass on September 5.

Nonetheless, Letteen tearfully said in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court later that very month that she was no longer proceeding with the case against her boyfriend and that she had made a mistake. She said Muckett had taken her in off the streets.