Carol Ann Lynch surrenders, due in court today

Jan 22, 2014 News

Early yesterday morning, former beauty queen Carol Ann Lynch, in the company of lawyers, turned herself in at the Brickdam Police Station to face the charge which was long set to be reinstituted against her.
In 2007, Lynch had been accused of killing her husband, former Swiss House Cambio Managing Director, Farouk Razac, but the charge was discharged in 2008 by the then Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.
And in 2010, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had recommended that the murder charge be reinstituted against her. Since the 2008 discharge, the reinstituted charge is yet to be read to Lynch.
Despite the wanted bulletin issued for her arrest, Lynch, who once held the title of Mrs. South America, had managed to evade the police for the last three years. However, on Tuesday she had announced her intentions to come forth to face the charges and clear her name through what she had hoped would be a speedy court hearing.
Conversely, after presenting herself with her lawyers Peter Hugh and Latchmie Rahamat, the matter was set to be called today, much to her lawyers’ dismay.
Rahamat, in a brief interview with the press, expressed disappointment with the delay in the commencement of Lynch’s court hearings.
“This morning at 9 o’clock we brought Carol Ann Lynch in because there was a wanted bulletin issued for her since last year. Now we are very disappointed at this time.”
According to Rahamat, since Tuesday they have indicated that Lynch would have surrendered to the police with the hope that the matter would have been called yesterday.
“We were hoping that she would have passed through court today (yesterday) itself, so that this matter… we can have a date fixed for the commencement of the PI. In fact, at this stage we are pleading for this matter to be expedited,” the lawyer said.
Echoing Lynch’s wishes, the lawyer openly beseeched the court to deal with the case in an expeditious manner.
“At this time our plea is that this matter be expedited, because we want this chapter in Miss Lynch’s life to actually be over and done with. This is something that has been hanging over her head for a very long time,” she stressed.
Recapping, the lawyer related that “She was discharged by a city magistrate because there was not sufficient evidence for a charge of murder. Now if the advice from the DPP is to recharge, we say ‘okay fine, she is here to answer to the allegation.’”
She further challenged the case which has been formed against her client claiming that the court will once again find her innocent of the charge.
“Anyone who has had a look at the records of previous proceedings will see that they have no evidence. If they have new evidence show us the new evidence… come with it first to court,” the Defence Attorney stated.
As was expressed by Lynch in her release to this publication, Rahamat also contends that the matter will end as it did in 2008. “We are confident that she will again be discharged, that’s why we are pleading that the matter be expedited,” expressed the lawyer.
The charge which Lynch will once again face had in fact been discharged by the then Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys who cited that the Prosecution at that time had failed to establish a Prima Facie case of murder against her.
Reports indicate that on May 7, 2007, Lynch had discovered her husband’s lifeless body on the bedroom floor of their 106 Ireng Place, Bel Air Park, Georgetown, residence. Razac was purportedly found with blood oozing from his mouth.
The post mortem showed that the businessman died as a result of “asphyxiation (suffocation) due to possible ligature strangulation.”
Four days later his wife was charged with his murder but in 2008, the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) ended when the then Magistrate had discharged the matter, citing insufficient evidence.
However, today Lynch will appear before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to be indicted on the murder charge.

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