The case involving suspended Superintendent Ray John and his co-accused, Shakema Charles will more than likely be sent up to the High Court for trial next week.
This is because Magistrate Dexter Wason dismissed no case submissions made by their lawyers in the Magistrates’ Court.
Lawyers for John and his former partner Charles were doing everything possible to prevent a conviction for passport fraud.
Their attorneys had filed submissions to have the case dismissed or tried in the Magistrates’ Court rather than the High Court.
The two, charged in connection with a major passport scam, were previously cleared of all criminal charges in March when Justice Tunde Bakre dismissed the charges, ruling that the law does not permit conspiracy to be tried by a judge alone.
However, their victory was short-lived as they were recharged and brought back to the St. John’s Magistrate’s Court to restart the legal process.
John and Charles are again jointly accused of conspiring with Vincentian resident Lonzel Jones to create fake passport bio pages using unauthorized Multi-Layered Infilling Sheets.
With the no case submission now rejected, they will go through committal proceedings on January 29 after which they will await a date to be arraigned by a High Court Judge.
They have now run out of cracks and loopholes in the system but at the same time I would not be surprised if they manufactured some. Ordinary people woulda gone jail lang time
Great and most welcomed news. Now, let’s get on with it!
How can a matter like this where people were caught red handed, getting so much set back?, come on now, this is a high profile fraud case, this dont look good, only drugs case get solve?
You forgot to artificially increase the views on this one its still at the real number of 78, it should really be 5-800 which is your preferred range.
Somehow i choose to come to the negativity first. A bigger story at hand and you choose to pop up under here and comment about views. hmmm. this looks a bit like you’re more comfortable with the crimes in your country and being bitter to the best online news platform. that you proper know the range of what the people place thier numbers at. To my more advanced knowledge how do you even assume that they “artificially” increase their views? I mean, hiw can someone ‘Artificially’ increase their views? cause i wanna do mines for all my social media platforms. let’s not spread hate under here, spread hate to who’s bringing down the name of our country
Antiguañs keep your eyes open wide on this Court case, as they are trying their endeavour best to throw away this case. As a law enforcement officer, he should never had gotten caught up in such a situation and now fighting to clear his name.
If it was me or you, we would be in jail long time ago, this man is fighting to get back into the police force, after it is clear to one and all, that a criminal act had been committed.
Time for Justice to be served and stop trying to tipped the scales of justice and turn back the hands of time.
Let Justice be done.