Mechanic France Prince, one of the men accused of abducting the daughter of businessman Beharry ‘Natoo’ Dookie over three years ago, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.
Magistrate Sueanna Lovell, who presided over the preliminary inquiry into the charge of unlawful confinement for ransom at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, found that a prima facie case had been made out against Prince an d committed him to face a trial.
Prosecutor Neville Jeffers led the case for the police.
Prince, of Lot 3 East La Penitence, was initially jointly charged with two other men for the crime.
It was alleged that between August 28 and August 29, 2009, at Stevedore Housing Scheme Squatting Area, East La Penitence, Prince, Sivon Warner, 27, of Tucville Government Ground and Tyronne Solomon, 22, of 3440 Jacksonville Street, North Ruimveldt, unlawfully confined Rorhema Dookie with intent to hold her for ransom of $40 million.
It was alleged that Dookie had just exited a school on Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg to meet her waiting boyfriend, Joel Oudkerk, when the kidnappers struck. They hit the young man twice in his head and grabbed Dookie.
The next day she was pulled out of a shack in the Stevedore Squatting Area by a woman who thought she was the girlfriend of one of her kidnappers.
