An­na-Lisa Paul

The case of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman, Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man, has been ad­journed to Oc­to­ber 16. This, af­ter con­cerns were raised yes­ter­day in the Port-of-Spain Sec­ond Crim­i­nal Court be­fore Jus­tice Mark Mo­hammed by some of the ac­cused who are yet to se­cure le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Mo­hammed heard from some of the ac­cused that they were "op­pressed" and be­ing "dis­crim­i­nat­ed against by the state."

They claimed they had spent six years in prison wait­ing on their mat­ter to be called and that the State had re­tained the ser­vices of three Se­nior Coun­sel to pros­e­cute. The pros­e­cu­tion team in­cludes Gilbert Pe­ter­son, Dana See­ta­hal and Is­rael Khan.

The men charged with kid­nap­ping and mur­der­ing Naipaul-Cool­man are: Kei­da Gar­cia; Jameel Gar­cia, broth­ers Mar­lon and Earl Trim­ming­ham, Sher­von Pe­ters, Joel Fras­er, Ronald Arm­strong, An­to­nio Charles, Lyn­don James, Al­lan Mar­tin, De­von Pe­ters and Dwayne Gloster. Naipaul-Cool­man, 52, was snatched from her home at Lange Park, Ch­agua­nas, while pulling in­to her dri­ve­way on De­cem­ber 19, 2006.