Accused in Crum-Ewing murder refuses to go into court

Four days after he was rearrested, Regan Rodrigues, the man accused of murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was yesterday brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where police were unable to get him to go into a courtroom.

Rodrigues remained adamant that he was not going into court despite pleas by family members and promptings by the police.

The accused angrily voiced his disapproval at the recent decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to order the reopening of the preliminary inquiry into the charge that he killed Crum-Ewing, some six months