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Oct 12, 2014 News
The defence in the preliminary inquiry of the murder trial of New Amsterdam businessman Charles Henry, called ‘Charles Bristol or Wheels, 52, of Main and Lad Lane, New Amsterdam, is threatening to move a constitutional motion.
The defence is taking this course of action after citing a number of undue delays in the matter. Bristol is on trial for the shooting to death of Errol Lindo, called ‘Son Son’, 51, on April 21, last, at High Dam, Caracas, West Canje. Bristol, a licence firearm holder, is alleged to have shot Lindo following an altercation over land.
So far three witnesses have testified in the matter before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.
Witnesses Travis Crandon and Cassandra Arthur, after giving evidence, were grilled under cross examined by Attorneys at Law for the defence, Nigel Hughes and Horatio Edmondson. The lawyers declined to cross examine Police witness, Detective Corporal Ryan Caesar, who had tendered the Post Mortem report.
On the day in question, Bristol and some workmen were in the process of dismantling a house which allegedly belonged to Lindo. It is alleged that the enraged man was shot after he ran into the yard and attacked the businessman with an axe.
He was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he succumbed.
Henry and his workmen were subsequently confronted by a hostile crowd that had gathered at the scene. The men fled and Henry took refuge in a nearby residence. His Toyota Carina 192 bearing registration number PGG 4048 was burnt and overturned. He had to be rescued by the police.
Residents in the area staged a protest through the street of New Amsterdam the following day.
During the last hearing in the Magistrate’s Court, Bristol’s battery of lawyers, among them Hughes, Edmonson and Mortimer Coddette, informed the court that it has been six months since their client has been incarcerated and it is unfair that only three witnesses have been brought to the court so far.
He threatened that if the remaining eight witnesses are not made available by the next hearing, they will be moving a constitutional motion based on Section 144:1 of the Constitution of Guyana.
The matter is set for continuation on October 16.
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