DPP withdraws appeal to Full Court on Marcus Bisram ruling

Two days after filing an appeal before the Full Court challenging what she called errors in a judgment granting former murder accused Marcus Bisram his freedom, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday withdrew the case from that court.

Maintaining that her order directing Bisram be committed to stand trial was lawfully made, the DPP had filed the appeal citing a number of errors which she said Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall made in arriving at her ruling.

When the matter was called for hearing before the Full Court yesterday, however, it was indicated that the state was no longer proceeding in that court.