The Marabella hairdresser jointly charged with two men for possession of a gun and ammunition yesterday admitted she was not speaking the truth when she claimed to be the secretary of a police youth club.
Anisha Ifill, 20, of Marabella, made the admission when court prosecutor Sgt Ian Sylvon drew the matter to the attention of San Fernando magistrate Kerianne Byer.
Sylvon said Ifill had not been a member of the police youth club for the past five years.
He said that false information, which was published in the newspapers, has had a negative effect on the club affecting its membership and sponsors and the general role of the club has been called into question.
Apologising on behalf of his client, attorney Frank Gittens said those were the instructions given to him by Ifill at the previous hearing.
The Community Policing Secretariat (CPS) of the Police Service also sent out a news release yesterday stating that the secretary of the Bayshore Police Youth Club was WPC Vanessa Noel, of the Mon Repos Police Station and not Ifill.
It further stated that Noel had been the leader of the club, formerly the Bayshore/Marabella Police Youth Club since its inception in 2011.
Ifill, of Marabella, her boyfriend Jason Williams, 25, of Claxton Bay and Lynte Prime, 25, were arrested on August 2 after the police stopped and searched a car they were in at Lady Hailes Avenue, San Fernando and allegedly found a Beretta pistol and 16 rounds of 9 mm ammunition.
They were charged by PC Mohammed.
Yesterday, Prime pleaded guilty after the court gave a maximum sentence indication. He was subsequently sentenced to 12 months on the gun charge and nine months on the ammunition charge.
The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. Gittens request that Ifill’s bail be varied was denied.
She is $150,000 approval bail and a cash bail alternative of $45,000, but her family has been unable to take her bail.
Williams, who together with Ifill had pleaded not guilty, is out on $100,000 bail. They were ordered to return to court on September 6.