Teen remanded over murder of retired schoolteacher

A teenager who allegedly murdered a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher after robbing her was remanded to prison when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The 16-year-old  boy of Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara was not required to plead to the charge of murder when it was read to him by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

It is alleged that on the May 18 at Friendship, East Coast Demerara the teen murdered Dulsie Trim, a retired schoolteacher.

The youth told the magistrate that he was employed as a mason at La Bonne Intention and was on his way to work on Friday morning when a car hit him down. He further explained that three policemen got out of the car, pointed guns at him and told him that he was wanted.

He was taken to the police station where “they put me in a room and put black plastic bag over my head and beat me,” the youth related.

“So you don’t know anything about this?” the magistrate asked him and his reply was no.
According to the prosecution, the teen is the second person to be charged in the matter. There was a robbery and the house was set afire with the woman inside, the prosecution said.

The magistrate refused bail and the matter was transferred to the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court for September 18.
A police press release last Friday said that police in Division ‘C’, East Coast Demerara, arrested the young man around 08:45 hrs at Friendship Village the same day.

The 16-year-old suspect was fingered in the murder of Trim who was robbed and burnt to death in her Friendship home on May 18, the release said.

Further, according to the police, earlier this year the same suspect was charged with four robberies under arms and was placed on bail, but stopped attending court when another suspect Stephen Andrews, 17, of Company Road, Buxton was arrested and charged with Trim’s murder.

No arrest warrant was issued for him at the time because his attorney told the court that he was in the interior.