Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday denied the request by the attorney for murder-accused Marcus Bisram that the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the capital offence be done in a Georgetown court.
On Monday, one of Bisram’s attorneys, Glenn Hanoman, asked that legal proceedings against his client be dealt with in the Georgetown court rather than being transferred back to Berbice. The matter was adjourned until yesterday pending a decision on Hanoman’s request.
When the matter was called before the Acting Chief Magistrate in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Three yesterday, she immediately told the accused and his lawyers that such submissions ought to not have been made in the Georgetown court.
She then transferred the matter to the Whim Magistrate’s Court, where Magistrate Renita Singh will be conducting the PI into the charge. The Acting Chief Magistrate told them to bring whatever issues they had to Magistrate Singh’s attention. The matter will be called on January 20th, 2020.
Bisram, who was extradited to Guyana from the US late last month, is presently remanded to prison after he was formally charged with procuring and commanding the murder of Corentyne carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt in 2016.
Bisram was arraigned at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with counselling, procuring and commanding Harri Paul Parsram, Radesh Motie, Niran Yacoob, Diodath Datt and Orlando Dickie to murder Narinedatt between 31 October, 2016 and 1 November, 2016, at Number 70 Village, Corentyne.
