THE ex-solider who was shot by Police during a short-lived freedom bid on Thursday has been charged with escaping from lawful custody.
Wayne Inniss, of Lot 130 Lamaha Springs, who ran away from the Maraj building in Charlotte Street, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen yesterday and was further remanded to prison on that charge until February 4.
Inniss was awaiting the continuation of the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charges against him and another accused in the Army flagship drug bust case at a City court when he made the escape dash but was pursued and re-arrested after being wounded by Police gunfire.
Inniss and Shandy Stephens, of Lot 118 Dacama Circle, Mackenzie, Linden, are jointly charged with conspiracy to traffick in 60 kilogrammes 681 grammes of cannabis (marijuana) between May 1 and 11, 2003 and trafficking in the same quantity of the narcotic by exporting it.
They were busted after the marijuana was discovered aboard the Guyana Defence Force vessel ‘GDFS Esssequibo’ when it docked in Barbados last May to participate in the Caribbean regional ‘Exercise Tradewinds’.
Both of the accused were dishonourably discharged from the military and originally faces summary charges.
But, on August 12, 2003, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) substituted the pre sent charges and the others were put down sine die (indefinitely).
The PI into the new charges continues on Tuesday, January 13, before Magistrate Maxwell Edwards.