THE NUMEROUS cases against murder and kidnap accused Silas Mack are expected to be transferred to the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court, State attorney Veona Neale told the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Neale gave Chaguanas First Court Magistrate Gail Gonzales no further information but said the issue will be raised on the next hearing when Special Prosecutor Dana Seetahal SC is present. Seetahal was appointed by the Director of Public Prosecutions to represent the State in the cases against Mack.

Mack, 33, of Sultan Avenue, Cunupia, has been charged with kidnapping eight-year-old Leah Lammy and stealing her cellular phone. It is also alleged that sometime between May 31 and June 2 last year, he murdered 19-year-old Gail Durity. Her body was found in a Manzanilla coconut plantation the day after she left her Dass Trace, Enterprise, home.

Mack is charged also 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.

Mack 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 disappeared last December 16 after a shopping trip in Chaguanas. Neither have been found. Mack is also jointly charged with 26-year-old Ishmael Mohammed for rape, kidnapping and robbery, which allegedly occurred on July 25, 2008.

Yesterday, Mohammed’s attorney, Joseph Honore, asked that bail be granted to his client. But Gonzales refused and advised Mohammed to apply to a judge in chambers. Mohammed and Mack will next appear in court on November 18.