TIME was given for Silas Mack’s lawyer to arrive in court to speak on his behalf on Friday. But after 30 minutes and no appearance of attorney Deke Rohlehr for the murder and kidnap accused, Mack’s cases were adjourned.

’I was informed the lawyer will not be coming again (today),’ Mack told the Chaguanas First Court.

Mack is charged with the kidnapping of eight-year-old Leah Lammy and stealing her cellular phone. It is also alleged he murdered 19-year-old Gail Durity sometime between May 31 and June 2, last year. Durity’s body was found in a Manzanilla coconut plantation the day after she left her Dass Trace, Enterprise, home.

Thirty-three-year-old Mack, of Cunupia, is also charged with the kidnapping and murder of Devika Lalman. The teenager was found in January in a rice-field off the Southern Main Road in Cunupia. She had been missing for five days.

He also faces charges of kidnapping Sally Lobai, who disappeared on February 11 after she travelled into Chaguanas for a job interview, and Rianna Parag, who went missing last December 16 after a shopping trip in Chaguanas.

Mack is also jointly charged with Ishmael Mohammed for a 2008 rape, kidnapping and robbery incident.

Last week, Rohlehr told the media that Mack had been beaten unconscious at the hands of prison officers at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.

’Prison officers jumped on his face, back and groin,’ Rohlehr had said then.

He said his client was being forced to sign a document and to tell officers the location of the women.

On Friday, except for slightly reddened eyes, there was no external sign of Mack’s alleged beating.

Senior Magistrate Nanette Forde-John eventually adjourned Mack and Mohammed’s matters to October 26.