DPP can instruct reopening of Rondy Jagdeo PI – crime chief

Rondy Jagdeo

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday said that the Director of Public Prosecutions has the power to instruct the Magistrate’s court to reopen the preliminary inquiry pertaining to businessman Rondy Jagdeo who was freed on Thursday on a charge of killing his close friend Kirk Davis.

The Crime Chief was at the time responding to questions from the media after Jagdeo was freed at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court when a no-case submission made by the defence  was upheld by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry following the absence of key witnesses.

“The procedure is that the prosecutor writes a report and the file goes to the DPP and the