A WRIT of habeas corpus calling for the release from police custody of Carol Ann Lynch, the beauty queen wife of dead Swiss House cambio boss, Farouk Razac, was filed yesterday in the High Court.
The legal document was filed by attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes on behalf of Lynch’s brother, Roger Lynch, and at 09:00h today Justice Rishi Persaud will hear arguments in support of the writ.
Lynch remained in custody yesterday since the police detained her Monday evening, hours after her husband was found dead in his Lot 106 Ireng Place, Bel Air Park, Georgetown, home.
They had reportedly arrested a number of persons but only Lynch and a male were held as police continue their investigations.
The results of a post mortem conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation showed the businessman died as a result of “asphyxiation (suffocation) due to possible ligature strangulation”, the Police reported.
In the writ, Roger Lynch is contending among other things, that the police never told his sister that she is a suspect in the death of her husband; that due to her continued detention she is unable to look after the welfare of the couple’s daughter, and the security of their Bel Air Park home.
Razac, who was popular in the sporting fraternity as the leading promoter in the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament, will be buried today according to Muslim rites at the Muslim cemetery, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
Prior to burial, the Swiss House boss’s body would be available for viewing at his parents’ Middle Road, La Penitence home, and then at the Muslim Youth Organisation ground at Thomas Lands, Georgetown.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday acknowledged that the death of Razac “is of some interest to the administration”.
He, however, told reporters at his weekly post-Cabinet news conference the administration has not received any formal briefing on the matter from the Police and as such is not in a position to comment on the matter.
“…this is a matter of some interest to the administration but I think you should take it as a pretty commendable quality that in such matters, not until the administration is in possession of either formal briefings or what we would refer to as a quality report on matters that the police would want to bring to our attention (would we want to comment),” Luncheon said.
His comments were in response to a question from a reporter on whether the administration was briefed on the ongoing investigations into the death of the businessman who has had several run-ins with the law and alleged drug connections which the government is committed to fighting.
In an initial report on Razac’s sudden death, Police on Monday said when he was discovered, “blood was seen oozing from his mouth and his hands were around his neck. A television which was usually at the foot of the bed was found on the floor”.
Police said further examination of his body revealed a small wound on his head and marks around his neck.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where the wife had taken him, but police said a doctor there felt he may have been dead some time before he was taken to the hospital.
Police reported that the home where the couple resided with their daughter was guarded by security and that there were no signs of forced entry.
Razac, who has had a controversial past, and his beauty queen wife were before the court on charges of unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition following raids on several homes in Georgetown which netted a gun, explosives, ammunition and cocaine. Razac was out on $1M bail while Lynch was granted $500,000 bail.
The case in which Police have accused the now dead Razac and Lynch of, on November 10 last, at the Bel Air Park home, unlawfully having four 9mm magazines, being component of a firearm, as well as a Beretta automatic pistol, is scheduled to be heard again this month.