Loud applause resounded yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court as Norman McLean and Evelyn Sita Ramlal were told that they had been discharged in the matter in which they were accused of forging an adoption order for a child, Arianne Anastacia Vidya McCall.
In a courtroom filled to capacity, presiding Magistrate Fazil Azeez informed that a prima facie case had not been made out against the defendants and so the charge levelled against them had been discharged.
The defendants were invited to sit by the magistrate who informed them that handing down his ruling would have taken some time. For the next 35 minutes, Magistrate Azeez divulged the