The Star (Jamaica)

L.A. LEWIS’ HEAD TO GET TESTED

Judge orders psychiatri­c evaluation for entertaine­r

- RASBERT TURNER STAR Writer

Horace Lewis, more popularly known as L.A. Lewis, and his coaccused will have to be evaluated by a psychiatri­st before they next appear in court.

Lewis is charged along with Ras Nature Forever and Ras Wadewade Selassie I, for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA).

Parish Court Judge Monique Harrison ordered the report be done after the trio appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Tuesday. When asked if they had legal representa­tion, Lewis said that they had not been arrested by the police, but were actually kidnapped for defending a female.

MENTALLY STABLE

Harrison then ordered the psychiatri­c report for the next court appearance on March 16. The trio insisted that they are mentally stable.

The allegation­s are that on October 3 about 2:45 p.m., Lewis and other persons were protesting in Spanish Town against the Government’s orders for persons to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID19. The police instructed that the group disperse but they refused. In addition to being charged with breaches of the DRMA, Lewis and his co-accused were subsequent­ly arrested and charged with disobeying a constable’s command and failure to move and keep on moving. They have maintained their innocence citing that they cannot be charged as they are protected by the Maroon law.

Lewis has consistent­ly claimed to be a close relative of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and has declared that he is Paramount Chief High Priest of the Nyan-Ko-Pong Maroons. However, the colonel of the Accompong Maroons recently threatened Lewis with flogging, after labeling him a troublemak­er for ascribing to himself Maroon heritage.

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