The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has filed an appeal challenging the dismissal of a drug trafficking charge instituted against a couple allegedly found in possession of a quantity of Ecstasy pills.
An official at the DPP’s Chambers yesterday informed that the appeal was filed on January 29th.
Lonsdale Hope and his common-law wife, Shelly Ann Gilgeous were freed by Magistrate Annette Singh on January 17 following a trial. The prosecution failed to prove its case.
They were jointly charged with having 66 grammes (equivalent to 0.14 pounds) of ecstasy for the purpose of trafficking in their possession on April 23rd, 2018, at Regent Road, Bourda.
It was the police’s case that on the date in question, ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Narcotics Branch intercepted a vehicle, with licence plate PSS 2037, in which the defendants were the lone occupants. A search was conducted on the vehicle and a bag with the Ecstasy was found in a handbag, which Gilgeous, a former nurse, identified as hers, in the back passenger seat. According to the police, Gilgeous gave an oral statement claiming that it was Hope who gave her the substance.
