Parkop’s daughter-in-law fails to get ‘threatening to kill’ charge dropped

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Parkop’s daughter-in-law fails to get ‘threatening to kill’ charge dropped

PORT MORESBY: A committal court in Waigani yesterday (March 24, 2022) refused to drop the “threatening to kill” charge against National Capital District governor Powes Parkop’s daughter-in-law Quinnie Mick.

Magistrate Paul Puri Nii ruled that police had completed its investigations and the file was served.

FLASHBACK … Stacey Lydia Sirimai

Mick, 24, is charged with one count each of deprivastion of of liberty, robbery, threatening to kill and assaulting Stacey Lydia Sirimai in Port Moresby in November.

Mick is married to politician Sengol Parkop, who contested in the Moresby North-West by-election last year but lost to Lohia Boe Samuel who is currently facing a murder charge in court.

The news break was reported by The National:

Parkop’s in-law fails to get charge dropped

March 25, 2022The NationalMain Stories

A COMMITTAL court in Waigani yesterday refused to drop the “threatening to kill” charge against National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop’s daughter-in-law Quinnie Mick
Magistrate Paul Nii ruled that police had completed its investigations and the file was served.
Mick, 24, from Ambum’s Kupin Kem village in Enga, is charged with one count each of deprivation of liberty, robbery, threatening to kill and assaulting Stacey Lydia Sirimai in Port Moresby last November.
Mick is married to politician Sengol Parkop, who contested in the Moresby North-West by-election last year but lost to Lohia Boe Samuel who is currently facing a murder charge in court.
Mick’s lawyer Edward Sassingian filed an application last month to remove the charge of “threatening to kill”, claiming it was defective because the charge did not contain the element of an unlawful act.
Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Joseph Sangam argued that the charge was sustained as there was a chain of events of the alleged offences, which included issuing of threats.
Sangam said Mick had been advised at the time of the offence by a policeman to take Sirimai to a police station to have the matter sorted out and Mick said she would.
He added that Mick had lied to the policeman and did not take the victim to the police station.
“Mick kept the victim in the vehicle and the threats and assaults continued. Those are some of the reasons this charge is sustained.
“Sirimai had a right to make a complaint but Mick had denied her that right,” Sangam said.
The matter returns to court on April 14 for defence submission.
Mick’s bail was extended.
Mick, allegedly on Nov 30 between 9am and 1pm, used her husband’s mobile phone to send several text messages to Sirimai to meet up at a motel in Waigani.
Sirimai was a member of Sengol’s campaign team in the by-election and Mick suspected she was having an affair with her husband.
Sirimai made her way to the motel after receiving the messages.
When she arrived, she stopped to chew betel nut when a group of people approached her from behind and allegedly started punching and kicking her.
Sirimai was allegedly forced into a vehicle which was driven to Rainbow where she was repeatedly assaulted and threatened with small knives and the assailants attempted to remove her pants in the car.
She was then driven to Hohola where she was allegedly dragged out of the car and repeatedly asked if she had an affair with Sengol.

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