Hire car operator Ameer Inshanally of Sand Reef Albion, Corentyne Berbice Region Six (East Berbice/ Corentyne) was on Friday refused bail when he made his second appearance in the court of Albion Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh on a rape charge.
Ameer Inshanally
14-year-old Hemwattie Indar died days after ingesting a poisonous substance, after alleging she had been raped by the accused.
Inshanally appeared virtually before the Magistrate, and was refused bail. He had initially denied knowing the teenager when the case was called in June. On Friday, Magistrate Singh ordered that he makes a disclosure of his witnesses within 45 days.
The accused, who was unrepresented, made a verbal request for bail, but the court refused the request. Magistrate Singh instead informed that the accused could make an application for bail through the High Court.
Inshanally will have to return to court on September 15, when the Police are expected to make full disclosure of statements.
It has been reported that the teenager was picked up by Inshanally as she was awaiting transportation to attend school. However, after she had boarded the taxi, Inshanally reportedly drove to New Amsterdam under the pretext of going to purchase fuel. While in New Amsterdam, he reportedly engaged in sexual intercourse with the teen without her consent.
After allegedly committing the act, he reportedly drove back to Albion, where he dropped off the victim at the head of the Albion Estate Road. Feeling violated, traumatised, and embarrassed after the ordeal, the teen reportedly went home and consumed a poisonous substance. It was after she had been rushed to the medical facility that she told her mother what had transpired, and her mother immediately alerted the Police.
A medical examination conducted on the teenager proved that she had indeed been sexually penetrated. The suspect was later arrested and charged for the crime.
