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A Toronto man with a violent and lengthy criminal record will be staying in jail ahead of trial, accused of attempted murder and kidnapping charges.
Gergy Gorburn, 51, had a bail review Monday morning in a Barrie courtroom, eight months after a justice of the peace told Gorburn he was not going to be released on bail charged in a violent kidnapping of a Mississauga man found bound and brutally beaten inside an abandoned Orillia gas station last September.
The defence argued Gorburn the justice of the peace made an error by failing to adequately consider the strict proposed bail conditions while placing too much weight on the need to protect the public.
Superior Court Justice Donna Kellway disagreed with the defence and ordered Gorburn should remain behind bars, saying the justice of the peace made no legal error when ordering Gorburn be detained.
Now 51, Gorburn, according to court records obtained by CTV News, has a lengthy criminal record dating back more than 20 years having been arrested and charged at least 15 times with violent crimes that include assault, robbery with a weapon, and home invasion.
Gorburn is Gorburn is one of five GTA men charged. Dwayne Pennant, Manraj Mann, Baltej Sandhu and Surjit Singh Bains, are accused of breaking into the former gas station at the corner of Colborne and Peter streets and torturing a man until a passerby called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle and masked men in the building.
All five men were arrested inside, while the Mississauga man found with serious injuries was rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition. Any evidence heard in court is protected by a publication ban.
Gorburn and his co-accused are also charged with breaking and entering, forcible confinement, weapons counts and uttering death threats. Last month trial dates were put on the record for the accused beginning in December.
Sandhu was granted a $250,000 bail under strict house arrest conditions days after his arrest followed by Bains, and Mann, who required reviews of their bail to secure release from jail.
Dwayne Pennant was initially released on $125,000 bail but was arrested in late May accused of breaching his conditions in Brampton. He remains in jail with Gorburn who returns to court by video in a week.
Pennant returns to a virtual courtroom in Brampton on Thursday. Their co-accused in two weeks. The allegations against them have not been tested in court.
