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Former NA Mayor freed of attempted murder charge

Oct 22, 2009 News

Former New Amsterdam Mayor and prominent businessman, Errol Alphonso, had an attempted murder charge against him dropped after Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond upheld no case submissions by his defence team at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Alphonso, 68, of Penitentiary Walk and North Road, Queenstown, New Amsterdam was charged with attempting to murder Aubrey Brandt, 19, of Cumberland, East Canje Berbice, and Sherwin Vyphius, 27, a mentally ill vagrant of Winkle Road New Amsterdam in September, 2008.
It is alleged that Alphonso shot the two men outside his home.
Vyphius, who is also a patient at the Fort Canje Psychiatric Hospital, was found in a water tank in a yard next to Alphonso’s.
He was taken from the tank by police and placed into a police vehicle.
Vyphius became aggressive and began abusing the ranks then managed to escape, injuring a Police Corporal in the process.
During his escape he also knocked Alphonso to the ground.
Alphonso then shot the man.
The former Mayor, who served two terms, and who was once the President of the Guyana Football Association, was hospitalized shortly after he was charged with the offence. His weapon was lodged and he was placed on $500,000 bail.
In summing up the defence case after the prosecution had earlier closed theirs, Attorney at law Nigel Hughes who appeared in association with attorneys at law Ramesh Rajkumar and Lloyd Thomas, asked the court to dismiss the case as the evidence presented by the prosecution was manifestly unreliable and very contradictory.
Hughes said that the evidence presented was so confusing that it was hard to decipher what really transpired.
Additionally, the defence submitted that the alleged weapon was never presented in court as an exhibit, so no linkage between the defendant and the crime could be established.
The prosecution merely relied on the evidence presented.
Magistrate Chandan-Edmonds in her ruling concurred that the evidence was indeed contradictory and very confusing and subsequently discharged the matter.

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