BEAUTY Queen Carol Ann Lynch has been charged with the murder of her husband, Swiss House Cambio Managing Director, Farouk Razac.
The stunning development followed four days of intesnsive investigations by Police since the controversial businessman was pronounced dead at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after his wife said she had found him on the floor of a bedroom in their Ireng Place, Bel Air Park, Georgetown, home with blood oozing from his mouth.
From the time of Razac’s demise, that shocked the city business community, Lynch had been in custody as Police probed the circumstances.
The 33-year-old woman appeared before Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys yesterday, accused of the May 7 unlawful killing of her spouse.
Attorney-at-law, Mr. Nigel Hughes who had moved to the High Court Thursday, for a writ of habeas corpus to have her released, also entered appearance for Lynch also in the lower Court yesterday, in asociation with Mr. Mark Waldron.
Before she was remanded, Hughes said he would expect that the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge for the capital offence would not be subject to delays and the judicial system not influenced by the Press in what he called “this malicious prosecution.”
Police Inspector Desiree Fowler, prosecuting, did not object to the Defence request for an early hearing.
Hughes had also asked that the prisoner on remand be allowed to attend the funeral service for her deceased husband in the afternoon but the magistrate declared he did not want to get involved in the Police administrative duties and suggested they be consulted on the issue.
Hughes made application, too, for Lynch to remain in Georgetown so he could get proper instructions from her instead of having him travel to Berbice, where women prisoners are kept.
Magistrate Gilhuys referred that matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Meanwhile, Lynch broke into tears at one point while Hughes was speaking on her behalf.
She will make her next Court appearance on May 17.
Prior to his murder, Razac and Lynch were facing summary trial on joint charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition as a result of raids on their home and were both on bail.
As she was escorted on her way to jail in a Police vehicle, curious onlookers gathered in the Court precincts to get a glimpse of the reigning Mrs. South America, who won the title at a pageant in California but was crowned here last October 27.