THE preliminiary inquiry (PI) into the charge surrounding the murder of University of Guyana (UG) student Yohance Douglas, was yesterday adjourned to September 2.
It happened after attorney-at-law Mr Compton Richardson and Senior Counsel Bernard DeSantos, for the accused policemen, had completed the cross-examination of Police Detective Deputy Superintendent Richard Oliver.
Police Constables Mahendra Baijnauth and Gerald Alonzo are charged, before Acting Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen, with the March 1 unlawful killing of Douglas in the Sheriff Street, Georgetown shooting.
Oliver, who is attached to Criminal Records Office and Juvenile Branch of Criminal Investigations Department (CID), was followed on the witness stand by Detective Corporal Simeon Reid, of Brickdam Police Station, who completed his evidence-in-chief but was cross-examined only by DeSantos.
Other attorneys-at-law Ms Jo-Ann Barlow and Ms Simone Bullen, from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), are prosecuting in the case.
After Barlow reported that the other witness scheduled to testify yesterday had taken ill, Mrs Holder-Allen announced the adjournment.
Earlier, Barlow, responding to remarks by DeSantos, assured the Court that, on the next occasion, at least three witnesses would be present.
Baijnauth is also charged with the attempted murder of Ronson Gray, one of the companions travelling in the same car with Douglas when he, too, was injured by Police gunfire.