Anjanie Boodnarine, the common-law wife of convicted drug lord Barry Dataram, yesterday had another charge against her dismissed.
Boodnarine, who was charged with willfully attempting to defeat the administration of the law by leaving the jurisdiction, was told yesterday by city magistrate Leron Daly that the prosecution had failed to prove that she willfully left the jurisdiction. As a result, the court informed Boodnarine that she was free to go.
An elated Boodnarine thanked the magistrate and gleefully walked out of the courtroom.
She had been charged after she and Dataram left the country prior to the verdicts in their trial for alleged cocaine trafficking. He was convicted of the crime while she was not.
Boodnarine was last week also cleared of a charge that she forged a passport after another magistrate found that there was insufficient evidence led against her. She is still out on bail pending one other charge for allegedly failing to present herself to an immigration officer when leaving the country. This matter is being heard at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
