Kaylan Dowdie was almost beaten to death by five women at an illegal party in St. Andrew on November 9, 2020.
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Superintendent Aaron Fletcher, Commanding Officer for the St. Andrew North Police Division
Crysian Lewis, one of the five women charged in connection with the beating of 17-year-old Kaylan Dowie in Barbican, St. Andrew last year was offered bail in the sum of $350,000 when she appeared in the St. Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday.
A curfew order was also placed on Miss Lewis, who is pregnant.
Miss Lewis's co-accused, who also appeared in court on Wednesday, will remain in custody until January 27.
When the matter was called up, the court was told that the women's criminal records that were requested by Judge Feona Feare-Gregory were not available.
The judge told the court that she was unable to offer the other women bail without the records.
Twenty-eight-year-old Shakeema McLeod, 33-year-old Nadine Aldridge, 45-year-old Yoland Vassell, 22-year-old Timone Williams and 26-year-old Lewis, who are all from Barbican Road, are charged with wounding with intent and unlawful wounding.
It was reported that about 11:30 p.m. on November 9, the teenager and Miss McLeod had an argument while at an illegal party.
The other women allegedly joined in and it developed into a brawl.
The police said Kaylan Dowdie was beaten until she became unconscious.
One of the investigators in the case on Wednesday told the court that Miss Dowdie's mother, Veneisha Buckley, has been threatened.
The investigator also told the court that the Police High Command has intervened.
Superintendent Aaron Fletcher, Commanding Officer for the St. Andrew North Police Division, told Radio Jamaica News that a probe is being carried out "with a view to establishing the source of the threat and to treat with same as provided for within the framework of the law."
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