‘Batman’ denied bail on kidnapping, rape charges

Derek Achong

Con­tro­ver­sial so­cial me­dia per­son­al­i­ty Gabriel “Bat­man” Har­ri­gin has been re­mand­ed to prison af­ter be­ing de­nied bail on charges of kid­nap­ping and rape.

Har­ri­gin ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ter In­di­ra Chinebas on Wednes­day, where bail was re­fused. He is rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Lar­ry Williams and is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear in court on March 20, when bail will be re­con­sid­ered.

The 32-year-old is ac­cused of at­tack­ing a woman in Jan­u­ary, two days af­ter cel­e­brat­ing his birth­day. Ac­cord­ing to the com­plainant, Har­ri­gin picked her up at her D’Abadie home and they lat­er vis­it­ed a bar on Ari­api­ta Av­enue. She al­leged that in­stead of tak­ing her home, he drove her to his res­i­dence in St James.

The woman claimed she was as­sault­ed, threat­ened and forced to have un­pro­tect­ed sex twice be­fore be­ing dropped off in Port-of-Spain, where she made a re­port to the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.

Har­ri­gin was ar­rest­ed last week and charged af­ter re­port­ed­ly be­ing iden­ti­fied in an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rade. He faces charges of kid­nap­ping, false im­pris­on­ment, griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault, two counts of rape and as­sault by beat­ing.