Christopher Thomas, STAR Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:

A Hanover man, accused of making a false police report that another man had a gun, was remanded in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday.

Gene Madourie, a 39-year-old plastic welder from Hopewell, pleaded guilty with explanation to attempting to pervert the course of justice concerning the other man, Keith Turner. He returns to court tomorrow.

Reports say Madourie made a report stating that Turner pointed a gun at him, and on the strength of this report, Turner was brought before the Western Regional Gun Court in Montego Bay.

However, on February 11, Madourie reportedly confessed that Turner had not in fact pointed a gun at him. Following this, he was charged.

"I saw him (Turner) with something wrapped up and I thought it was a gun, but it was not a gun," Madourie explained in court on Friday.

"Do you have any previous case before the court?" Resident Magistrate Sandria Wong-Small asked the defendant.

"Yes, I have a case going on for a murder charge, where I'm reporting at the Sandy Bay Police Station (in Hanover)," replied Madourie.

RM Wong-Small ordered that the investigating officer, who was not present, be advised to come before the court.