An­na-Lisa Paul

Three months af­ter a Port-of-Spain man ap­peared in court charged with threat­en­ing to kill the Prime Min­is­ter, a state at­tor­ney is yet to be ap­point­ed to pros­e­cute the mat­ter. Re­called for a fourth time yes­ter­day, the mat­ter was un­able to pro­ceed af­ter Sgt Ricky Lochan told Chief Mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar the file was yet to be sent to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

The charge against Nico­lai Mar­fan, 23, of Char­ford Court, Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, is that on Oc­to­ber 10 at the West­ern Main Road he is al­leged to have sent a mes­sage by tele­phone which was men­ac­ing in char­ac­ter. Mar­fan, an air­port em­ploy­ee, al­leged­ly tele­phoned the po­lice, threat­en­ing to kill Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar. He was ar­rest­ed at Pi­ar­co Air­port on Oc­to­ber 12 by ASP Ajith Per­sad and Cpl An­tho­ny Williams of the Port-of-Spain CID.

Mar­fan plead­ed not guilty dur­ing his first court ap­pear­ance on Oc­to­ber 15. He was grant­ed $75,000 with a sure­ty to be ap­proved by a clerk of the peace. His at­tor­ney lat­er pre­sent­ed an ap­pli­ca­tion for re­duced bail to a judge in cham­bers and Mar­fan was grant­ed $5,000 own bail.

Con­firm­ing he had been re­port­ing to the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion three times week­ly, Lochan asked for a long ad­journ­ment to en­sure a pros­e­cu­tor was ap­point­ed by the next ad­journed date. Mar­fan, who is rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Joseph SD Sookhoo, will reap­pear on March 19.