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Treason PI … Matter postponed, DPP absent

Apr 12, 2011 News

The preliminary inquiry into the treason case involving Guyana Defence Force Major Bruce Munroe, his wife Carol Ann Munroe, and army reserve officer, Leonard Wharton, was yesterday postponed until Thursday.
The matter was “put down” since Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali Hack, was not present.  The matter is expected to continue on Thursday before Magistrate Priya Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court.
The defendants are being represented by attorneys at law Nigel Hughes, Gregory Gaskin and George Thomas.
On the last occasion state witness Quincy Critchlow continued his evidence in chief. Critchlow is the first witness called.
Carlon-Ann Munroe along with her husband Bruce Munroe who is a serving Major in the Guyana Defence Force and reserve officer Leonard Wharton was charged last December with plotting to depose the President and Government of Guyana, between December 1, 2009 and December 16, 2010.
At the initial stage of the allegation persons were speculating that the treason charge was linked to the fire that destroyed the Ministry of Health building on Brickdam.
Lawyers for the defendants had noted that the dates of the charge could not stand up to such speculation, since the Ministry of Health fire happened several months before.
The counsel opined that prosecutors have an uphill task to prove their case, and that their clients are confident that what they know the police have against them does not amount to a conviction.
The last persons to be slapped with treason charges were Mark Benschop and Philip Bynoe. Benschop has since been released from prison where he spent five years while Bynoe was never brought to court although charged.
Carol-Ann Munroe is also the first woman of the lot to have been charged with treason.

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