A father of two and a mechanic who are accused of the manslaughter of electrician, Ardell Haynes were remanded to prison yesterday when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Ordock Reid
The two, forty-eight-year-old Ordock Reid of 1969 Blue Mountain Road, Festival City and Keith Binns also know as `Boogy’ of A 76 East La Penitence, who stood in the dock with blank expressions on their faces, were not required to plead to the indictable charge of manslaughter.
It is alleged that on December 9, Reid and Binns unlawfully killed the 43-year-old South Ruimveldt resident, Haynes.
Prosecutor Denise Griffith objected to Reid’s and Binns’s bail application on the grounds that the two might not return to court if their conditional freedom was granted.
The magistrate subsequently ordered that both Reid and Binns be remanded to prison and transferred the case to Court Two for January 27.
Keith Binns
“I getting bail, what about de bail?” questioned Binns as he was being escorted out of the court by a policeman.
The court was told that the charge was initially murder but upon seeking advice from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) it was reduced to manslaughter.
Reid was hailed a local hero in July, 2006 when he had plunged into a cesspit at Tucville to rescue five-year-old Briana Dover, though she did not survive. He was one of the four men initially held for the fatal beating of Haynes, but released when the 72 hours permitted by the law were up.
The police, at this point, had submitted a file to the DPP for advice on the way forward and were last week instructed to conduct further investigations.
This was done and it was based on additional evidence that Reid was rearrested and Binns subsequently held.
Ardell Haynes
Three Tuesdays ago, as the electrician (Haynes) was making his way home on a bicycle from a birthday party held at a Norton Street residence, several persons pounced on him and beat him mercilessly.
They had assumed that he was the burglar who had broken into a house in Pirai Square, East La Penitence minutes earlier, and attempted to cart off a television set. That person dropped the item after an alarm was raised and escaped through a nearby alleyway. Subsequently a group of persons took a badly wounded Haynes to the Pirai Square home for identification saying that he was found staggering on a street in Meadow Brook.
The man was later taken to the East La Penitence Police Station and left in the yard between traffic motorcycles in the drizzling rain.
His reputed wife, Sheril Sydney had stated that when she called the station for information, the female rank at the other end of the line was uncaring and unmannerly. The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has since launched an investigation into the alleged negligence and misconduct by the ranks at the station.
Haynes was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Hospital and a post-mortem examination revealed that he died from multiple injuries.
Look carefully at these two men and you’ll see the difference between them and the victim, they get to tell their story, but he cannot. Justice must be served.
I look at Ardell picture and the pictures of those two air heads and I wonder ‘ who’s the thief here ?’
The two of them look like morons that just finished a joint each. They look just like the type that are hanging around the market places , snatching purses & choking and robbing people.
It makes me want to throw up just thinking that these creeps live amongs my fellow hard working , honest guyanese .aaah
it’s people like you who condone vigilantism,and now someone is killed we want them behind bars.
If you have read my original comment on this issue , you would have understand my point but apparently you didn’t , you’re just jumping to conclusion . Originally I said if they caught him red handed then he deserves a beating . How can they justify he’s the thief , they have no proof . i’ll say it again , the reality in guyana is this , ‘ you caught a thief he gets a beating ,’ you just suspect someone is a thief , then it’s a different ball game .
We know who won’t be home for Christmas…they deserve to be locked up. At least they are alive.
This is such a sad case, on one hand we have an innocent man being beaten to death, on the other hand we have some “vigalante” trying to protect their neighbourhood..
It’s so sad Reid go from Hero to jailbird..Guyana is becoming such a sad place…
We’ll be in jail this Christmas.
You can find us there.
Jail bells rings.
Handcuffs stings.
We never thought we’ll be caught.
We should have thought before we acted.
Others joined us in the beating.
Others are at home seating.
Ardell is in the ground forever.
Our lives are finished forever.
His families tears are on us.
Our families would be having Christmas.
RIP Ardell, they have to pay.
They left your family without a pay day.
Time has come to answer for the crime.
Attorneys are not going to charge dimes.
Our children are still going to visit us in jail.
Ardell children are going to visit him at his grave.
OK Cheryl….Peace!
Good try at composing.
Keep at it and we might later exchange compositions.
Merry Christmas from us to you
even to Ardell’s family too
amidst our pleasure, that family mourns
these guy’s look like they’re on hard drugs “and got the nerve to ask about being bail,i assume that he still has his high on .
When the police are negligent,crimes like this will occur.