Attorney’s case adjourned for 21st time

THE TRIAL of attorney Wilston Campbell, charged with perverting the course of justice, was adjourned for the 21st occasion, with the trial date set for January 5, 2004. “This case has been adjourned for too long,” Justice Herbert Volney said yesterday when the case came before him in the San Fernando First Assizes. Campbell’s attorney, Subhas Panday, holding for lead attorney Desmond Allum SC, told Justice Volney that the defence was awaiting the ruling of a legal issue which was before the Privy Council that may impact on his client’s case. State attorney Joan Honore-Paul indicated the prosecution’s readiness to begin the trial. The case against Campbell is that on July 18, 1995, at Cabin Restaurant and Bar on Keate Street, San Fernando, he allegedly gave PC Kurt Simon $1,500 to abort a charge against Anjay Singh and Dave Jamadhar for conspiracy to cheat on an examination. Campbell was committed to stand trial in the High Court on February 17, 2000.