Colin Wheeler’s name was on the provincial court docket again Tuesday morning, after he was charged with yet more offences inside Her Majesty’s Penitentiary.
Wheeler, 36, now has nine separate charges before the court, laid since he was arrested last fall.
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He appeared in court in person — and not by video from HMP, as he did on Monday — when his case was called Tuesday, and sat in the dock as the judge read the two new charges. Wheeler is accused of assaulting two fellow inmates July 4.
“I’d really appreciate the video,” he told Judge Mark Pike, who told him it would be arranged.
“I was just about to get out there and you got me,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler is set to be sentenced in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Friday on charges of assault with a weapon, mischief and breaching two court orders in connection with a violent incident involving two women in Benoit’s Cove, on the west coast of the island, last October. He’s been in custody since then, and has been charged with nine unrelated charges in that period.
Those charges include assaulting inmates, damaging Her Majesty’s Penitentiary property to the tune of more than $10,000, and making false fire alarms. Wheeler indicated Tuesday he wants to plead not guilty to the two latest charges, as he has done with the others. He’ll be back in court Wednesday, at which time he’s expected to officially enter the plea.
Wheeler, who is representing himself, is scheduled to go to trial on his outstanding charges over two days in November.
