KEVON FELMINE
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt
A police constable and a contractor are expected to appear before a San Fernando agistrate this morning charged in connection with the kidnapping of Natalie Pollonais for ransom.
Up to this morning, investigators were wrapping up their reports to submit to the court as ASP Peter Ramdeen prepared the charges.
This will follow the court appearances of PC Shaundelle Euin and labourer Gregory James on Monday and yesterday in the case.
Officers are rushing against a 12 pm deadline to charge the officer. The deadline was given to them by High Court Judge Margaret Mohammed yesterday, after she upheld a habeas corpus application challenging the officer’s protracted detention without being charged.
The application was filed at the Hall of Justice, Port-of-Spain, by attorneys Shiva Boodoo and Roshni Balkaran.
Pollonais, 49, the wife of Jason Pollonais, a director of the South Oropouche-based Inland and Offshore Contractors Ltd (IOCL) was kidnapped on September 6 along the SS Erin Road, Debe, after she left C3 Centre in Ste Madeleine. On that night, police found her BMW 5308 hybrid sedan abandoned in the parking lot of an HDC apartment building at Cy¬press Hills, Union Hall. The kidnappers contacted her family and demanded a ransom for her return.
Four days, later, Pollonais was rescued by police after they intercepted a white Nissan AD Wagon along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in San Juan.