Nadira Persaud, the Norton Street woman who was in July charged with cannabis possession, was freed yesterday after a city magistrate found that no case had been made against her.
Persaud, 30, was represented by attorney Glenn Hanoman, whose no-case submission was upheld by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
On July 13th, the accused was charged with having 25 grammes of cannabis for trafficking at her home at Lot 15 Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust.
Hanoman had stated then that the drugs uncovered that day were found at a residence that the defendant shares with six other persons. He had also said that, on the day of the bust, the woman and a visually impaired person were the only ones present and suggested that the other individual may not have been implicated because of their disability.
In her ruling yesterday, Magistrate McLennan stated that the prosecution’s witnesses had been discredited and their testimonies had not been believable. She further stated that the prosecution had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Persaud was in full or physical possession of the narcotics or even had knowledge of the substance. Added to that, the oral statement that was allegedly given by the defendant was never admitted into evidence.
All these things being considered, the case against Persaud was dismissed.
