A 23-year-old man from Princes Town has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the court last Fri­day on charges re­lat­ed to a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion.

The ac­cused was brought be­fore Mas­ter Sookraj Goswa­mi at South Court A, where he was not re­quired to en­ter a plea. Goswa­mi de­nied bail and is­sued a sched­ul­ing or­der, set­ting De­cem­ber as the date for a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the in­ci­dent oc­curred in the ear­ly hours of May 30. At ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5:00 a.m., a 24-year-old res­i­dent awoke to find an in­trud­er armed with a knife in­side his bed­room. A strug­gle fol­lowed, dur­ing which the vic­tim sus­tained mi­nor in­juries. The sus­pect fled through a bushy area at the rear of the prop­er­ty.