At the request of the accused, newspaper reporter Sharon Lall, 22, the ongoing pre-trial hearing was put off to May 10.

Lall, charged on two counts of attempted murder and free on $150,000 bail, told the magistrate that Defence Counsel Khemraj Ramjattan is out of the jurisdiction.

She protested that it would be unfair for new evidence to be taken as Ramjattan had been in Court on the last two occasions, waiting to continue cross-examine flyer Yacoob Mazaharally (Jnr), one of the virtual complainants who did not attend.

Mr Parvatan informed Mazaharally that he has to decide whether he will proceed with the matter.

Noting that he expected the witness to be present at 8.30 am, the magistrate said: “I was ready to dismiss the case today, Mr Mazaharally, if your were not present.”

The other victim, Vidya Gooray was, once more, absent but Police Inspector Christopher Griffith, who was also not there on the previous date of resumption because of his transfer to another station, said he was advised by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions to resume prosecuting in the matter.

Mazaharally, of Lot 19 Second Street, Cummings Lodge and employed with Air Services Limited, was to have resumed his evidence-in-chief yesterday.

However, another witness, Detective Corporal Downer will be called on May 10.

Lall is alleged to have stabbed Mazaharally, 24 and Gooray, 45, while they and Gooray’s nine-year-old daughter were in a Cessna aircraft en route from Ogle, also on East Coast Demerara, to Spring Garden, Essequibo Coast.

Fortunately, all of them returned to Ogle without fatalities and the injured were rushed to hospital and treated.

Lall, yesterday, too, drew attention to the fact that Channel 28 television had shown clips of her in Court but, when questioned, cameraman Francis Qamina Farrier told Mr Parvatan the recordings were done before the Court was formally in session and with Police permission.