Resident Magistrate Simone Wolfe Reece this morning vowed that only divine intervention can prevent her from getting the perversion of the course of justice trial of convicted dancehall star, Vybz Kartel, underway in October.
RM Wolfe Reece made the vow this morning as Kartel and his co-accused, Vanessa Saddler, otherwise called Gaza Slim and Andre Henry also known as Pim Pim, returned to the Corporate Area Criminal Court.
Saddler and Henry are accused of reporting to the Police that she was robbed by Clive Lizard Williams, the man who Kartel was in April convicted of murdering.
Prosecutors are alleging that Saddler, acting on the instructions of Kartel, conspired to deceive the Police into believing that Williams is alive.
A trial date of Monday, October 27 has been set for Kartel and his co-accused.
The trial is set to run for the course of a week.
Before the October date however Kartel and company are to return to Court on August 29 for a mention date.
RM Wolfe Reece told attorneys that she’s willing to mention the case every single day in order to have the trial started on October 27.
She said come that date, only the Lord God will be able to prevent the trial getting underway.
The Clerk reported to the Court today that a technical expert from Digicel, Mario Assad, who was expected to testify will not be able to do so.
The Clerk said Assad was no longer an employee of Digicel and hence the mention date before trial was necessary.
This in order to obtain and disclose a statement from his successor.
Attorney Peter Champagnie advised the court that Andre ‘Pim Pim’ Henry had reneged on commitments made and therefore he would no longer be representing him.
Pim Pim told RM Wolfe Reece that he was not planning on representing himself.
He was ordered to get an attorney by October 27.
RM Reece told Pim Pim the trial would begin regardless of whether he had an attorney by the trial date.
A smiling Kartel nodded to media personnel as he entered Court today.
He grinned and said thank you my lady as RM Wolfe Reece remanded him and advised him to report to Court for the mention date in two weeks time.
Both Gaza Slim and Pim Pim had their bails extended.
