State to disclose statements in Shannon case

This was the assurance of Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions George Busby who appeared on behalf of the State when Banfield’s alleged killer Dale Seecharan, reappeared before Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar in the Port-of- Spain Eight Magistrates Court yesterday.

Busby indicated he was waiting on the expedited police file and on the next occasion the matter comes up for hearing, he will seek to have statements sworn after which disclosure will commence.

The matter has been adjourned to next month.

Seecharan’s attorney Larry Williams last month complained of the slow pace with which the prosecution was moving with the matter.

Seecharan is charged with murdering Banfield sometime between December 4 and December 9 at Charlotte Street in Portof- Spain. Banfield went missing on December 5 and three days later, her body was found at the warehouse of IAM and Company