gas station in Flatts Village last week were remanded in custody at at Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Police are still hunting a fifth person suspected of involvement in the robbery at Van Buren's gas station last Wednesday night, in which 18-year-old Christopher Pedro was stabbed in the back.

Crown counsel Juan Wolfe had no objection to bail for three of the defendants, but Acting Senior Magistrate Edward King remanded all four in custody because of the seriousness of the offence. He said: "The offence of robbery is all too prevalent at this time in these islands and it must be deterred.'' Jamel Terricho Hassell, 20, of no fixed abode, Shannon Paul Fough, 28, of Happy Dale Road, Devonshire, Colsey Onsworth Gift, 43, of Parson's Road, Devonshire, and Shawn Albert Smith, 24, of St. Augustus Lane, Pembroke, are charged with conspiring to rob the gas station.

Smith, Hassell, and Gift, are accused of robbing the gas station of $3,112.

The three are also accused of wounding Mr. Pedro with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.

Hassell is charged with unlawfully possessing a knife in a public place, and Gift is accused of stealing a drink, worth $1. Because the main offence is indictable and must be tried at Supreme Court, none of the accused were required to enter a plea.

Hassell was represented by Peter Farge and Elizabeth Christopher appeared for Fough. Mr. Pedro, who spent two days in Intensive Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, was discharged on Friday.