The 31-year-old mother of three accused of throwing hot oil on a KFC customer on Monday was granted $45,000 bail and ordered to stay 100 metres away from the victim when she appeared in court yesterday. Erica Fonrose, of Sea Lots, was represented by attorney Sade Lee-Duprey when she appeared before Port-of-Spain magistrate Aden Stroude charged with assaulting Shameek Gonzales, causing grievous bodily harm.
Fonrose first appeared around 11.45 am but Cpl Mitchell of the Morvant Police Station, who arrested her, was not present when the matter was called and Fonrose’s criminal tracing was unavailable. Stroude postponed the case to 1.30 pm to give the police enough time to get her criminal tracing. Fonrose is alleged to have doused Gonzales with the oil after he allegedly slapped her. He is warded in a stable condition at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.
Before the case was called yesterday, four women who work at the courthouse came into the courtroom and told the T&T Guardian they were there to support since “all ah we is woman.” Fonrose will re-appear in court on October 22.