–says judge of Bisram’s lawyers request to withdraw application for dismissal

By Alexis Rodney

JUSTICE Gino Persaud on Monday came out strongly against lawyers representing US-based murder accused, Marcus Bisram, of wasting his and the court’s time, with the sudden move to withdraw an application in the high court to have the matter dismissed.
On Monday, instead of making his final ruling in the matter which was filed on September 25, and on which he has been working tirelessly to see completed, Justice Persaud had to chide attorney Sanjeev Datadin who was absent at the time and Siand Dhurjon for wasting valuable court time and State resources.

The judge said he found it rather troubling that the Bisram team would move in that direction on the very day he was expected to make a ruling. He said, too, that it was even more disappointing to see the application for withdrawal on his desk the very morning, when he had only on Friday directed Datadin to email him arguments of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) which allowed the defence to withdraw its application at that stage.
According to Justice Persaud, the information was never sent to him, which suggests that the attorney had had no intention of doing so in the first place. He also suggested that Datadin had that very Friday made the application.

Solicitor-General Kim Kyte John said she stands as the representative of all respondents in the matter, including the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), the Chief Magistrate and the Commissioner of Police. According to her, the information she received showed that the withdrawal was only against the DPP, with no mention of the others.
Kyte-John asked the court for substantial loss to be awarded to the respondents if it went through with the withdrawal.
The prosecution’s contention throughout the matter is that it has substantial evidence that the witness never changed his story, and clearly identified Bisram as the mastermind of the murder.

Meanwhile, the matter has been adjourned for today at 13:30hrs, and Justice Persaud said that Datadin needed to be in court.
The 27-year-old Bisram, who was ordered extradited by a US court judge earlier this month, is wanted here for the murder of Berbice carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt, whose lifeless body was found on the Number 70 Public Road on November 1, 2016.
Reports from New York are that Judge Peggy Kuo ruled that the evidence presented to her was sufficient for the accused to face trial, had the murder been committed in the US.
The judge also made reference to the extradition treaty which exists between Guyana and the US.

It is alleged that on the night of the murder, Bisram was hosting an after party for a community policing group during which he reportedly made sexual advances to Narinedatt, who was present at the party, but was spurned.

After a savage beating, allegedly at the hands of Bisram’s co-conspirators, Narinedatt’s body was placed on the public road and ran over by a car to make his death appear to be as a result of an accident. Soon after, seven persons were arrested with two allegedly fingering Bisram as the mastermind behind the act.
Five other men: Orlando Dickie, said to be Bisram’s bodyguard, Niran Yacoob, Radesh Motie, Diodath Datt and Harri Paul Parsram were this year arraigned in connection with the death of the carpenter.

Sharmilla Inderjali, Bisram’s mother, and another woman, Maryann Lionel are currently before the courts for allegedly attempting to bribe a police officer in connection with the case.
Reports indicate that after the killing, Bisram returned to the US where he lives in Arverne, and where he created the Marcus Brian Bisram Foundation, which is focused on “making better, brighter futures”.