Absent businessman sentenced to four years for shooting at GRA officers

Harrylall Motilall, the businessman who was charged almost two years ago with discharging a loaded firearm at officers from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), was on Monday sentenced in absentia to four years in jail after he was found guilty of the crime.

Motilall was found guilty of the charge, which stated that on July 16, 2014, while in company of others at Airy Hall, Mahaicony, he discharged a loaded firearm at Fabian Stuart, Jason Moore, Khemraj Murli and Garfield Scott with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or cause grievous bodily harm.

The ruling was handed down in Motilall’s absence on Monday by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court after the prosecution closed its case. The magistrate ordered that Motilall spend the first two years in prison. He is to spend the remaining two if he