Police on the Caribbean island of St Vincent has charged Anna-may Lewis with wounding the islands Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves was flown to Barbados last evening for an MRI after he was struck in the head as he made his way back to parliament on Thursday evening.
Authorities said Lewis will spend the weekend in lockup as she was denied station bail. Lewis will appear in court on Monday to answer the charge.
On Friday her lawyer Kay Bacchus Baptiste said her client was forced to confess to injuring the Prime Minister.
On Thursday evening, a release from the Prime Ministers office said;
“Approximately 200 demonstrators, responding to a call to action from the Leader of the Opposition, picketed the Parliament and blocked the entrance to the building, when the crowd prevented the vehicle carrying the Honourable Prime Minister from driving through the gate of the Parliament, he alighted the vehicle and attempted to enter on foot”.
“An Opposition demonstrator then hurled a projectile at the Prime Minister, which struck him in the head, inches above the temple. The Prime Minister, bleeding profusely, was taken to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital by his security detail”.
On Thursday night, Government Senator Julian Francis said a woman was arrested.
