ONE DAY after Attorney-at-law Latchmi Rahamat threatened to move to the High Court if there were any attempt by the Director of Public Prosecutions or the police to reopen the murder case against Carol Ann Lynch, the office of the DPP has made known its intention.

Contacted by the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, DPP Public Relations Officer Elizabeth Rahaman said the DPP Chambers has no intention to re-open the case against the former beauty queen.

The official said the likelihood of a re-opening hinges on the police coming forward with new evidence to support their case that Lynch did murder her husband back in 2007.

Carol Ann Lynch was charged with murdering her husband, businessman Faruk Razack, in their Bel Air home.

In the first preliminary inquiry, the police failed to prove to the court that Carol Ann Lynch had murdered her husband, and the matter was thrown out. The prosecution then returned to the DPP with what they claimed was new evidence, and the DPP instructed that the case be re-opened. However, Lynch was nowhere to be found, until she turned herself into police custody in January.

Carol Ann Lynch was, last Monday, freed of the murder charge after the Chief Magistrate threw the matter out again because the police failed to establish that Lynch had murdered her husband.

The Chronicle has been informed that if there is any move on the part of the DPP to reopen the case against Lynch, it will have to be hinged on the prosecutor’s report that has to be submitted to the office.

Meanwhile, in an interview, Attorney-at-law Latchmie Rahmat said that any attempt by the police or the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to reopen the case against Lynch will be met with much resistance through the High Court.

Rahmat said that the prosecution had two bites at the cherry and failed to convince the court that the evidence which they brought forth as new was enough to prove that Lynch murdered her husband.
Written By Leroy Smith