He pleaded not guilty to illegal possession of arms and ammunition before Magistrate Kumar Doraisami in New Amsterdam Court and was remanded to prison. Gibson was originally charged with the murder of Constable Ramphal Pardat, 52, one of the cops killed by bandits at the Rose Hall location on July 20 last year.

Pardat was relieved of his service revolver and taken elsewhere in the town where he was fatally shot execution style but the charge for his unlawful killing, against Gibson, was withdrawn on instructions from the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Gibson was arrested last October 21 at Rosignol ferry stelling, allegedly with a self-loading rifle (SLR), a semi-automatic pistol and a quantity of ammunition and Police said one of the guns for which he is charged had been taken from dead Pardat.