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Simels to know his fate next week

Aug 14, 2009 News

Prominent New York attorney at law, Roberts Simels, and his assistant Arianne Irving, will have to wait until next week to know their fate. Yesterday, Judge John Gleeson adjourned the proceedings to next Monday with the 12-man jury still to reach a verdict.
Reports out of New York stated that the jury, during their deliberations yesterday, requested several pieces of evidence, including all the testimonies given by the embattled attorney. Kaieteur News understands that the Clerk of Court indicated that the request would have taken some time and this prompted the judge to give the time out.
Simels, the former attorney for self-confessed Guyanese drug dealer Shaheed Roger Khan, and his assistant Arianne Irving are on trial for witness tampering, to wit, trying to neutralize witnesses and being illegally in possession of eavesdropping equipment.
Khan has already pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing for the witness tampering offence and several counts of drug trafficking. Most of the evidence has centered on taped conversations Simels had with wired US Government informant Guyanese Selwyn Vaughn.
During the testimonies, the court heard of a plot to harm several witnesses that were slated to testify at Khan’s drug trial. They also heard of Khan’s links to the Guyana Government through Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who it was alleged had facilitated the securing of the eavesdropping equipment which was used to record telephone conversations. The jury also heard about Khan’s ‘phantom squad’ which was allegedly responsible for the killing of several persons in Guyana, including boxing coach Donald Allison and talk show host Ronald Waddell.
The jury in the Simels case is expected to continue deliberations on Monday after a day off today.

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