Release Skelly now!

ATTORNEY Rangee Dolsingh yesterday challenged Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls to “take an unprecedented step” and discharge murder and kidnapping accused Sheldon “Skelly” Lovell, Shawn “Gumbo” Vincent, Brent “Small Brent” Danglade and Richard “Chinee” Kirton on the ground of “lack of prosecution.” The former Deputy DPP lashed out at the State for the way in which he felt they were trivialising the inquiry. He said in her absence, Debby Ann Bassaw, the State attorney responsible for prosecuting in the matter, should have at least sent a representative. If the State was serious about prosecuting these men, he said, then they would be at court for the scheduled hearings. “I have been here religiously at my inconvenience,” he added. “Discharge all of them today,” he again said to McNicolls. 
State attorney Natasha George, who was prosecuting in another matter, then told the magistrate that she would hold on for Bassaw, to which Dolsingh responded, “Then call the witnesses who are here.” At that point, George requested an adjournment when, she said, Bassaw would be present to “better represent” the State. Dolsingh was representing Danglade but had earlier received instructions from Lovell, Vincent and Kirton to represent them in the absence of their attorneys. He said if the four had been out on bail and had not shown up for a hearing, the State would have been “quick to take action” and issue a warrant for their arrests. It came as no surprise when Lovell requested the permission of McNicolls to make a statement. “I’m in custody almost four months now,” he said. “This case is supposed to be finished already.  Christmas everybody going home to their family and I have a family too. I am human too.” McNicolls adjourned the matter to December 15.