POLICE Inspector, Gordon Mansfield, is winding down the case for the prosecution in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the 2014 slaying of waitress Debra Blackman.

Ex-police constable, Maxwell Grant, will be called as the closing witness.
The prosecution is contending that on August 23, 2014, Shelton George, now crippled, of Better Hope South, East Coast Demerara (ECD), allegedly murdered Debra Blackman, a waitress.

George is being represented by attorney-at-law, Melville Duke.
When the PI continued on Friday before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan, Prosecutor Mansfield indicated to the court that he attempted to issue a court summons for his witness, Grant, but was informed that the officer had left the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and is abroad. Also, George’s attorney was absent ftom court. The Chief Magistrate in light of the situation adjourned the matter until August 4.
Debra Blackman, 48, of Critchlow Circle, Tucville, was shot and killed on August 23, 2014, in the Delicious Chinese Restaurant on Durban Street, Georgetown. The mother of five was killed while standing behind the counter of the restaurant where she had worked for some 11 years. The killer and an accomplice reportedly arrived and left on a CG motorcycle.
Police arrested George in his mother’s Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home. He has been wheelchair-bound, after he was shot in the back while in Suriname.