The missing court jacket from the Georgetown Magistrate’s court involves another case and not that of the late prisoner Edwin Niles, Stabroek News has learnt.
Stabroek News was informed that the jacket missing concerns a rape accused who was committed to stand trial in the High Court back in 2006.
The matter was dealt with by Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Wales Magistrate’s court where the accused was granted bail; however the family had never made the bail until last month. On September 24 the matter came up before the Magistrate and the jacket was brought to court so she could ascertain the amount of bail she had granted in 2006.
That court jacket never made it back into the hands of the office assistant who brought it from Wales but disappeared mysteriously. Stabroek News had reported that the missing jacket was that of the prison officers charged in the Niles case but this is not the case.
Magistrate Robertson was in possession of the case jackets on Tuesday when the matter was called before her.