Penal man granted $75,000 bail on home invasion charge

A 29-year-old Pe­nal man charged with home in­va­sion was grant­ed $75,000 bail when he ap­peared be­fore the Siparia Mas­ters Court on Mon­day.

Pe­ter Mar­shall, of Pe­nal Rock Road, was not called up­on to plead to the charge.

As part of his bail con­di­tions, Mar­shall must re­main at his cur­rent ad­dress, stay at least 50 feet away from the vir­tu­al com­plainant and re­port to the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion three days per week.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to No­vem­ber 30.

The charge arose from an in­ci­dent at a res­i­dence along Pe­nal Rock Road around 1 am on Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 6.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the woman had se­cured her home and gone to bed when she was awak­ened by a noise. Up­on open­ing her eyes, she saw a man she recog­nised stand­ing over her in her bed­room, armed with a cut­lass.

The woman raised an alarm, caus­ing the sus­pect to flee through a back door on the north­ern side of the premis­es.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed by PC Fer­gu­son un­der the su­per­vi­sion of se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Hospedales, Woman Su­per­in­ten­dent Bridglal and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Chul­han.

Fol­low­ing fur­ther en­quiries and in­struc­tions from Bridglal, Mar­shall was charged with one count of home in­va­sion.