A court was yesterday told that there is sufficient evidence against the four men charged with robbing Land Court judge Nicola Pierre and her husband Mohamed Chand, including a confession and identification by the victims.
Prosecutor Sherlock King made the statement yesterday in the absence of the investigating rank who was due to produce the evidence supporting the case against the accused, Damion Millington, Anthony David, Nicholas Narine and Premnauth Samaroo, at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
The four men were charged with robbing Justice Pierre and Chand at their Felicity, East Coast Demerara home and discharging a loaded firearm at security guard Raul Peters.
It is alleged that in the company of others they robbed Pierre of valuables amounting to $1M and that they robbed Chand of articles amounting to $2,630,000.
King stated that while the investigating rank was not able to make it, there was sufficient evidence against the accused.
It was stated that David and Samaroo were pointed out during the identification parade as being part of the group of men who attacked and robbed the couple.
Narine, the prosecutor stated, had given an oral confession, where he admitted to being the driver of the car used to transport the group to and from the home of Pierre and Chand.
Upon hearing the claim about Narine’s alleged confession, his attorney, Lyndon Amsterdam, questioned the validity of the accusation against his client. Amsterdam stated that while no statements were prepared and presented to the court, the prosecution was pulling accusations out of thin air. He said that at any time the prosecution could soothe the court with claims of confessions.
While there was no records of the confessions, the prosecutor stated the information was received from the investigating rank who was absent.
Amsterdam stated his client did not confess to any police officer and the fact that the file was not presented shows that the prosecutor’s words have no validity. He therefore requested bail for Narine.
However, upon hearing told that the case files are currently with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Magistrate Zamilla Ally denied Narine bail and adjourned the case to September 8, 2015 for report.
