'Blackie' inquest
No show witnesses force adjournment
Stabroek News
April 10, 2002

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The inquest into the deaths of Linden London called 'Blackie' and Rhonda Forde was yesterday adjourned following the failure of four witnesses to appear in court.

Three army witnesses, Wycliffe Mc Allister, David Clarke and Fitzroy Warde as well as the brother of London, Lincoln London, were all summoned twice but failed to appear in court yesterday.

Attorney-at-Law for the Guyana Defence Force, Tracy Gibson, related to the court that Warde and Clarke were on an official visit to Lethem and thereby unable to attend, while Mc Allister had retired.

Coroner Melissa Robertson, who adjourned the proceedings until April 24 at 0100 hrs, related to the jurors that there were 34 witnesses who gave statements but they would not all be called. One of them, Police Superintendent, Leon Fraser, had since died, she noted. Fraser was shot dead last week Tuesday during an anti-crime operation.