TWENTY-three-year-old Sylvester Bristol, a labourer also known as “Rambo” (no address given), was yesterday arraigned in the Georgetown Magistrates Courts before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer a charge that he murdered female taxi driver, Savitiri Palmer between February 15 and 16 at Soedyke, East Bank of Demerara.He was not required to plead to the indictable offence, and Police Inspector Michael Grant, prosecuting, requested three weeks to have the file completed.

The facts of the indictment were not read in court, and the case was put off to March 23.

Palmer’s body was reportedly discovered in a clump of bushes two miles from where her vehicle had been found at the back of a resort on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. The woman had reportedly left her Soesdyke home at about 20:30 hrs on Saturday night with the intention of dropping two persons at a loam pit in Timehri, and had taken along her son for the ride.
AROUND THE COURTS
With Geeta Rampersaud