Essequibo labourer gets one year over cocaine

Fadil Shaw
Fadil Shaw

Fadil Shaw called ‘George’, a 36-year-old labourer of Lot 24 Three Friends, Essequibo Coast, was yesterday jailed for one year over the possession of 1.1 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. A release from the police said that the defendant appeared  yesterday at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court, before Magistrate  Tamieka Clarke, where the charge was read to him. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to one year.