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Barry Small’s wife remanded for smuggling cell phone in jail
“Myworship I have no idea of what is going on, I did nothing wrong” blurted out Marceline Basdeo Small, the wife of Barry Small who is charged together with his lover Bibi Gopaul for the suspected murder of Gopaul’s daughter.
Marceline was slapped with the charge of smuggling a prohibited item into the Camp Street penitentiary. The accused who is a manager at Guyana Water Incorporation, resides at lot 187 Parfait Harmony Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara.
She made her way yesterday into the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courtroom before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry fully decked in a blue pants suite. She was unrepresented by an attorney.
Barry Small’s wife remanded
The accused while standing close to the prisoner’s dock declared her innocence of the charge instituted against her.
However, police prosecutor, Corporal Venetta Pindar, told the court that on January 24, last, Marceline Small took to the Camp Street jail a prohibited item with out lawful authority. Pindar added that the accused on the day of the incident was at the said prison to delivered meals for her husband who is on self support.
It is customary that meals brought for prisoners be inspected by prison officers for prohibited items.
As Barry Small’s meals brought by the accused were inspected, officers unearthed a cell phone stashed in a loaf of bread.
After weeks of investigation, lawmen decided to charge the accused. The prosecutor clearly indicated that the previous matter where a young woman was fined for taking a cell phone into the said jail has no link to the offence Marceline committed.
Pindar furthermore did not object to bail but Inspector Stephen Telford was over heard prompting Pindar to object.
At that point, Marceline with a shaky voice said “That person who give me the food that had the phone was already charge and fined, I cannot understand why I am now being charge for something I did not do…I cannot understand, is de police call me and say I have to come to court “.
The case hearing took a quite unexpected turn when Magistrate Beharry informed the accused that bail will be refused. The Magistrate informed the court that citing the seriousness and pervasiveness of the offence the accused will be remanded.
Magistrate Beharry after inquiring the next court appearance for Barry Small, told the visibly tense suspect that she will return before the said court on March 1. Barry Small is also scheduled to appear on the same date for the continuation of his case preliminary inquires.
Marceline was held by prison officers on January 24, after a phone was discover in a loaf of bread that was intended to be delivered to a prisoner. After being taken to the station, Marceline told lawmen that it was Anastasia Nerville who gave her the bread. Ranks then made a telephone contact to Nerville who then admitted to giving Marceline the bread with the phone. She was charge and placed before the court. At her first court appearance she pleaded guilty and was fined $25,000.
Marceline Basdeo Small, who was a Miss Guyana Universe delegate in 2002, first came to prominence in 2001, when she and a male acquaintance alleged that they were kidnapped. The incident according to Marceline took place infront of Tower Hotel, Main Street. The two were taken to an abandon house at Kaieteur Avenue, Bel Air Park, Georgetown.
After intense police investigation, the car was found abandon on Lombard Street, Georgetown.
Marceline during the investigation told reporters that her kidnappers left her in the house, thus she manage to use her cell phone and call for help.
No one had since been arrested for the alleged kidnapping.
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