March session of Demerara Criminal Assizes commences

Apr 02, 2014 News

– Highly anticipated cases listed for trial
Three Judges have been selected to preside over the March session of the Demerara Criminal assizes, which opened yesterday at the Georgetown Supreme Court.
During this session, several cases are expected to come up for trial before Justice Navindra Singh, Justice William Ramlall and Justice Dawn Gregory. The matters will be selected from a total of 225 cases listed for trial. Among them are several cases of murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, wounding with intent to commit a felony, forgery, carnal knowledge, rape, incest, buggery, arson and illegal possession of firearms.
The case against Jarvis Small called ‘Barry’ and his girlfriend Bibi Shareema Gopaul, who were jointly accused of the unlawful killing of 15-year-old Queen’s College student, Neesa Gopaul; the Carnal Knowledge case involving, former President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Colwyn King and the case of popular promoter, Colin Mack, who is facing charges of rape, assault and forcible abduction of a female are among the highly anticipated cases listed for this session and Michael Assanah, who was charged with seven counts of causing death by dangerous driving is expected to come up for trial.
Assanah was the driver of the minibus ‘Red Rat’ that was involved in the horrific smash on the East Coast of Demerara, killing seven people. Those killed in the accident are Sewsankar Sewdat, Pamela Yaw, Sharon Lall, Sharon Simmons, Cheryl Primo, Leslyn Boucher and Leyland Prince.
In addition, a number of cases which ended in a hung jury verdict during the last criminal assizes are scheduled for retrial. These matters include that of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ who was on three separate murder charges, Collier is charged with the September 30, 2006 murder of 34-year-old businessman, Chandrapaul Persaud, called ‘Kero Man’ of Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara and for the murder of brothers Ray Walcott called ‘Sugar’, and Carl Andrews, called ‘Alo’ which occurred back in 2006. His second retrial concluded last December, with a hung jury verdict.
Murder accused, Charles Anthony Woolford, is also awaiting his second retrial. Woolford was charged with the murder of his wife, Festival City beautician, Latoya Conway Woolford. The incident allegedly took place after the couple had a heated argument on February 8, 2009 at their Lot 2041 Hummingbird Street, North Ruimveldt, home.
Shawn Thom and Orin David, called ‘Plait Hair’ or ‘Malik’, are expected to face a Judge and Jury for retrial for the murder of Mahaica farmer, Lakhram Bishundial, who was allegedly killed on August 20, 2010 at Hope, East Coast Demerara, while the matter against, Hoosman Khan, and his sisters Bibi Shamiza Khan and Bibi Farida Khan called ‘Pum’, is also scheduled to come up for retrial.
The trio was indicted for the murder of US-based Guyanese, Motilall Singh. Singh was allegedly murdered in September 2009 at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara. The three accused – Singh’s stepchildren, were implicated in the crime after police investigations indicated that they had paid a hit man to kill their stepfather.
A fourth person, Bishoondial Mahadeo was also charged for the murder but he was acquitted last January. The proceedings began yesterday with the trials of Renwick Alexander and Albert Andres, who are both facing the court for murder.

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