CHIEF Magistrate Ann McLennan is yet to set a date for the commencement of the inquest into the shooting to death of three alleged bandits on the Georgetown seawall earlier this year.

The chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had recommended a coroner’s inquest be held into the March 15th fatal shooting of the three men, whom police said were robbery suspects.

The three men are: Dextroy Cordis, 46, called “Dottie” of Lot 4 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara; Kwame Assanah, a former soldier, of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, and Errol Adams, 57, called ‘Dynamite,’ of Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast and also of Buxton, were fatally shot north of the GNS sports ground after police said they had opened fire on ranks.

The men, the police said, were about to execute a robbery on a customer who had withdrawn millions from the bank. The inquest was ordered following the Guyana Police Force Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) completion of a probe into the matter. The shooting was thoroughly discussed at the level of the National Security Committee, following varying accounts of what had transpired on the day in question.

“It is my instruction that in any occasion where there is the death of a person by unnatural means, that death should be investigated, particularly in the Guyana Defence and Police Forces,” President David Granger had said.