Lionel Eaghan, 22, of a Belama Phase III address in Belize City, is out on bail of $1,500 after appearing in court today on a charge of unlawful imprisonment.
His alleged victim, Nicaraguan housewife Yettie DeSouza, 31, reported that around 12:15 a.m. on Christmas Day she was on her way to deliver food for her common-law husband when at the corner of Calle Al Mar and Baymen Avenue, a tinted four-door Chevrolet, license plates C-7804, drove up slowly beside her.
The driver, later identified as Eaghan, reportedly demanded that DeSouza get in, otherwise he would shoot her.
A fearful DeSouza complied and the man drove her up Freetown Road and then onto the Northern Highway.
In the vicinity of Brodies Supermarket, the driver stopped and reportedly began to unzip his pants, but a police mobile arrived at that minute and detained him.
Eaghan appeared in #6 Magistrate’s Court and told Magistrate Sharon Frazier, according to court reports, that DeSouza, who according to him was in some distress, stopped him and claimed that her husband had beaten her up.
In Eaghan’s version of events, she willingly entered the car and he told her he needed to pick up some relatives in Belama. Eaghan says police detained him near the Scotia Bank ATM on the Brodies compound.
Whichever version is correct, if Eaghan goes near DeSouza before he returns to court on February 27, 2009, his bail will be confiscated. The case will be next heard on that date.