FORMER Senator Stuart Syvret will have to wait even longer to hear if he will face a criminal trial after the court ran out of time at his abuse of process hearing.
The ex-Health Minister spent all of yesterday morning giving evidence and was then cross-examined by Crown Advocate Stephen Baker in the afternoon. By 3.15 pm Mr Syvret said he was exhausted and asked the Magistrate’s Court to adjourn to a later date for the summing-up.
The next court date available was next Friday, 8 October, and the hearing will now continue on that date, when both sides will sum up their cases before a decision is made.
Mr Syvret, who is facing two charges of breaching the data protection law and two alleged motoring offences, claims he has been the subject of ‘political oppression’. He has spent the past four days arguing that the charges against him should be dropped because his investigation, arrest and subsequent prosecution were unlawful.
Syvret case to continue next week