SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Danella Evans, also known as Nelly or Samantha, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry charged with aiding and abetting well known promoter Colin Mack in his rape offence.

The fashion student, who resides at 95 Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown, was not required to plead to this charge as well as to an indecent assault offence.

Particulars of the first charge said, on April 12, at North Ruimveldt, she aided and abetted Mack to have carnal knowledge of a female without her consent.

It is also alleged that, on the same day, also at North Ruimveldt, she indecently assaulted a female.

According to Police Inspector Denise Griffith, prosecuting, Evans has been eluding Police for quite some time.

She said the accused was hiding out in Kwakwani but after she came to Georgetown, Police got information that she was at her home.

According to Griffith, Evans was arrested last Wednesday.

The Magistrate refused her bail and she will return to court on September 8.

On June 6 last, Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson ruled that a prima facie case has been made out against Mack and committed him to stand trial for rape at the October sessions of the Demerara Assizes.

Griffith had opposed Mack’s bail on the ground that he would not attend his High Court trial. She had expressed fear that the accused might flee the jurisdiction, even if he surrenders his passport, by using neighbouring Suriname or Brazil as escape routes.

Mack, 38, made his first Court appearance on April 15 on the charge of raping a 19-year-old woman on April 12.