Lawyer withdraws appearance for absent Dataram, wife

With self-professed drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine once again failing to appear for a key ruling in their trial for cocaine trafficking, their lawyer yesterday told the trial magistrate that he was no longer representing them.

Dataram, Boodnarine, Kevin Charran, and Trevor Gouveia are currently on trial for possession of 129.230 kilogrammes of cocaine (equivalent to 284 pounds) found on April 16th, 2015 at the Lot 661 Silver Dam, Fourth Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme house owned by Dataram.

Magistrate Judy Latchman had issued arrest warrants at the previous hearing after