Sixty-year-old Verline Hyacinth Watt, the director of the finance ministry's Memorandum of Understand-ing Secretariat, and her son were charged after the police raided their home while investigating a possible case of abduction.

Believed to be cocaine

A quantity of a substance, believed to be cocaine, was reportedly found in her upper St Andrew house.

However, it was revealed in court yesterday that preliminary forensic tests indicated the substance is not cocaine.

The case has been put off until December 31.

The court has requested that the forensic analyst be present during that hearing to provide more details and to confirm the nature of the substance.

The Crown has also asked that the charges be dropped against the woman.

A decision is to be made regarding Watt's fate next Wednesday.