Reporter in mid-air stabbing case absent from court
THE case against Chronicle reporter Sharon Lall, charged in the mid-air stabbing of a young pilot, was postponed again yesterday after she did not turn up in court.
She was to have appeared before Magistrate Oscar Parvattan at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara but her lawyer, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan told the court Lall was still ill in the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The magistrate refused to listen to an application for bail until the accused is in court and the charges are read to her.
He asked the prosecution to ensure her arrival on February 19 or to present a medical certificate showing that Lall is incapable of attending.
The accused, 21, is charged with attempting to murder pilot Yacoob Mazaharally, 24, and Vydia Gorray, 45, while they and Gorray's nine-year old daughter were on board a Cessna four-seat aircraft on January 29.
The aircraft had departed the Ogle airstrip, East Coast Demerara for a journey to Spring Gardens, Essequibo Coast when Lall allegedly stabbed the pilot with a knife.
Police said Gooray tried to restrain her and was cut in her hand.
During the scuffle the wounded Mazaharally managed to land the plane safely back at Ogle.
The case was first called before Chief Magistrate Paul Fung-A-Fat on February 1 and he ordered that Lall remain in the hospital under police supervision.
Her Guyana and Surname passports were also ordered confiscated by the police.
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