JUSTICE Jainarayan Singh yesterday granted $500,000 bail to beauty queen Carolan Lynch who was remanded to prison Tuesday when she appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on a firearm and ammunition charge.
Magistrate Robertson-Ogle refused bail for Lindore and remanded him to prison until November 22.
Attorney-at-law, Mr. Nigel Hughes, had approached the High Court for bail after it was denied by the magistrate who had rejected the bail application that was accompanied a claim that Lynch, of Ireng Place, Bel Air Park, Georgetown, was suffering from acute gastric problems and was not likely to flee the country to escape trial.
When the bail application came up for hearing before Justice Singh yesterday, Miss Leron Daly, of the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution, who appeared for the State, told the judge the State was not opposing bail.
As a consequence, the judge granted Lynch bail.
The popular local model is jointly charged with her businessman husband Farouk Razac with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and one for unlawful possession of ammunition.
The husband, the owner of the well-known Swiss House Cambio in Georgetown, appeared Monday before Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys on the same charges, and was granted bail in the sum of $1M.
The charges are indictable.
According to the Police, Lynch, on November 10 last, had a Beretta automatic pistol and four 9mm magazines. Police claimed she also had 120 rounds of 9mm ammunition without lawful authority.
Police said the gun and ammo were found in their home.
Lynch is the third person to be charged following the arrest of six persons last Friday after Police raided two housing areas and confiscated guns, ammunition and cocaine.
The couple’s Bel Air home was raided along with several homes in North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
Also appearing before Magistrate Gilhuys on Monday afternoon was Rhonda Gomes of Lot 3009 North Ruimveldt. She is on five charges, including possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of explosives and unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.
She has been remanded to prison and like the others, is to return to court Monday.