THE Supreme Criminal Court formally closed its October criminal sessions in Berbice on Monday, with 37 prisoners at the New Amsterdam Prison awaiting trial.In the Jail Delivery, second-in-command, Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, Evelyn Crandon told Justice Dianne Inshanally at the Berbice Assizes, that all the male prisoners are requesting early trials.
Crandon said 33 of them are indicted for murder, one each for escape from lawful custody, sexual penetration, possession of firearm without licence and unlawful and malicious wounding.
Meanwhile, six inmates are requesting to make pleas. They are Omar Bacchus, Narvin Sugrim, Jason Mc Kenzie and Rakash Janack, each facing indictment for the capital offence, while Mahendra Doodnauth is charged with escaping from lawful custody and David Andrews faces a charge of possession of firearm without licence.