Sharon Lall remanded to prison Stabroek News February 27, 2001 Sharon Lall, the Guyana Chronicle reporter ensnared in the aircraft stabbing incident was remanded to prison yesterday when she finally made a court appearance. Twenty-one-year-old Lall, charged with attempting to kill pilot Yacoob Mazaharally and passenger, Vidya Gooray, was absent from court on the two previous occasions when the matter was called. However, on February 12, despite pleas from attorney Khemraj Ramjattan, Magistrate Oscar Parvatan refused to entertain any bail application until the young reporter appeared before him. Wearing a blue dress and seemingly very composed, Lall yesterday explained to the court that she was suffering from stomach ulcers and depression. A medical report was tendered to support her claim, but the magistrate refused her pre-trial liberty. Lall admitted speaking to Straight Up host Mark Benschop although the matter was subjudice, but the Kitty resident said that she only spoke to him as a friend and had no idea that her comments were going to be broadcast. As such, Parvatan instructed the prosecutor to issue Benschop and her physician, Dr Bhiro Harry, with notices to visit his Vreed-en-Hoop court come March 5. Lall was taken into police custody on the evening of January 29, after she reportedly tried to take the life of Mazaharally, called "Joey", while the Cessna 182 aircraft he was piloting was over the Atlantic Ocean. Reports stated that the reporter boarded the plane with a knife concealed in a newspaper and some 15 minutes into the flight pulled it out and allegedly stabbed him behind his neck. Gooray, one of the two passengers aboard the four-seater aircraft, intervened and attempted to subdue Lall. She was also injured. During this commotion, Mazaharally safely returned the aircraft to the Ogle Airstrip where he disembarked and Lall was apprehended by staff of Air Services. The first time the matter was called before Chief Magistrate, Paul Fung-A-Fat, he had ordered that she be kept in the Psychiatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital--where she was up until yesterday--and that her passport(s) be lodged with the police since her attorney had claimed that she was clinically depressed and could not appear before the court. Follow the goings-on in Guyana in Guyana Today If you do not see the 'Guyana: Land of Six Peoples' drop-down menu on the left then please click here to enter through the front door which will give you additional options and information.