RAPE accused Colin Mack who took nearly three hours to deliver his unsworn statement in defence from the dock yesterday created a record.Journalist George Barclay who has been practicing in the Courts for quite some time disclosed that the event yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh was a record in that facility.

The accused rambled from time to time during the period and sometimes sit down and turn around in the dock as he exhibited to the court what he said happened that day.
The only painful thing is that owing to the lack of suitable accommodation for the press as provided in the Court of Appeal and the Magistrates’ Court, the Members of the Press were too far away to get the essence of what he was trying to put over.

However, the Acting Registrar Mr. Raschid Mohamed has promised to put things right.
Colin Mack, a taxi driver, is accused with having, on April 10, 2009 in the County of Demerara, had carnal knowledge of a young woman without her consent.
The young woman had told the police and the Court how the accused had beaten her and sexually assaulted her at his home without her consent.
The trial against Colin Mack began at the Demerara Assizes Tuesday before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed jury.
The taxi driver is said to have had carnal knowledge with a young woman whom he had taken to his home on the day in question.
The accused is alleging that he had sex with the girl with her consent, but the victim who gave evidence on Tuesday is denying the claim.
Mack, who is represented by Mr. Peter Hugh, is claiming through his counsel that the girl is adding new details at the High Court trial.
In her Examination in Chief led by Prosecutrix Miss Mercedes Thompson, the victim related how she was dragged up a stairway by the accused who took her into a back room of his home and forced her to have sex with him against her will.
According to the victim, she screamed, fight up and even bit him on the forearm during the ordeal.
The young woman who swore on oath that she had gone to the Police Station that night without her panty which was only given to her later, admitted under cross-examination, “I did put on my panty before I left for the station.”
Then when the lawyer enquired from her an explanation for giving wrong information to the judge and jury the girl explained, “I made a mistake.
Miss Stacy Goodings is assisting in the prosecution.
When the trial resumes at 10:00 hrs this morning, Mr. Hugh is expected to begin his address to the jury.