The preliminary inquiry into the matter commenced with one witness being called to the stand.

The summons to the DPP was issued upon the written application by counsel for the accused, Vanessa Francis Banfield.

In court Mr. Nelson made an oral application to the magistrate to set aside the summons.

After hearing arguments, the magistrate reserved the decision on the summons until April 24 when the inquiry is expected to continue.

Nelson said, in issuing a summons for a witness, care should be exercised. He noted that the magistrate is required in law to exercise judicial discretion when issuing a summons for a witness.

“She seems to be persistent in some type of manoeuvre to put me on the witness stand in a preliminary inquiry. It is pitiful, I do sincerely hope that her worship will review the authorities that I submitted to her, and consider the exercise of a judicial discretion carefully,” he said.

Nelson told Caribbean Net News that if the summons is not set aside on the next occasion he will move speedily to the high court to have it upset.