Guyanese terrorist accused allegedly confesses to being mastermind

Russell DeFreitas the Guyana-born US resident who has been implicated along with Abdel Nur, Kareem Ibrahim and Abdul Kadir in a terror plot to blow up the JKK International Airport in the United States of America has reportedly confessed to being the mastermind.

However his attorney, Mildred Whalen, with whom this newspaper made contact explained that the US government has to give the defense notice of any statements it plans to use at trial in advance of the trial at which point they get to make objections to the use of the statements at trial.

Judge Dora Irizarry, who also presided over the Roger Khan matter, decides if the statements can be admitted at the trial.

If the statements are admitted at trial, it will be up to the jury to decide whether De Freitas actually made those statements, and, if he made them, whether they are in fact a confession.

Whalen explained that at this point, the government “has given me notice of certain statements they allege De Freitas made,” namely his confession but she has made a motion to suppress those statements to prevent them from being admitted at trial.