A 71-year-old woman who is accused of throwing a liquid substance on a prosecutor after her son was given three life sentences, was today charged for the offence.
Sybil Graham of Green Valley, Wismar Linden, appeared before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
It is alleged that on February 28,2020 at the Supreme Court, Georgetown, she assaulted State Prosecutor Tiffany Lyken.
The unrepresented woman pleaded not guilty to the charge after it was read to her.
In her explanation she stated,” After my son get the life sentence, he had a bottle between his legs and he threw it on the prosecutor. I went and pick up the bottle to throw it away but I didn’t find no bin so I walked out the courtroom and went out the court compound with the bottle.”
The woman went on to tell the court that while she was walking to go catch a bus to head back to Linden, the Prosecutor approached her. She stated,” When she approached me she said I done jail your son and all y’all going to jail. I was surprise at the Prosecutor behavior so I tip the bottle and lil water touch her.”
Graham told the court that after the incident, some male police ranks approached her and said she she was needed for assaulting a State Prosecutor. She was then taken to the station and charged for the offence.
She was released on $10,000 bail with the condition that she report to the Wismar Police Station every Friday until the hearing and determination of the trial.
On February 28, 51-year-old Gavin Graham hurled a plastic bottle filled with liquid at the State Prosecutor.
At the time, he was being escorted to the prisoners’ holding area at the High Court in Demerara from where he would have been taken to prison to begin serving his life sentences. Graham was sentenced by Justice Sandil Kissoon after he was found guilty of the murders of N’kosi Abrams, 39, her boyfriend Shawn Whyte and her 68-year-old stepfather Clifford Sampson.
