MONTEGO BAY, St James - A Montego Bay man who is alleged to have participated in the torture of a suspected thief was offered bail when he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court recently.

Anthony Gibbs, a 26-year-old car wash employee of a Barnett Lane address who is charged with assaulting the complainant, was offered bail in the sum of $100,000 with up to three sureties.

A charge of abduction was, however, dropped after it was ruled that there was no basis for it.

Allegations are that the complainant was at the UDC field on Howard Cooke Boulevard at about 10:00 am on January 18, when he was approached by a man and a conversation started.

The complainant it was heard, was asked about a missing cellular telephone by three men who reportedly assaulted him and slapped him with a machete.

He was then forced into a car, the court was told, and taken to Railway Lane where he was hung from his feet by wires and burned on parts of his body with lit coals before taken back to the UDC field.

Gibbs will return to court on March 7 when the case will be again be mentioned.

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