Clothes vendor charged with attempted murder, armed robbery of Essequibo businessman

A clothes vendor was yesterday morning denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton when he appeared before her charged with attempted murder and robbery under arms.

The first charge against Ray Yukum is that on April 24, at Georgetown, he discharged a loaded firearm at Ganesh Jaigobin, with intent to murder him. The second charge read that on the same day, at Regent Road, Bourda, being armed with a weapon, he robbed Jaigobin of $1.6 million. The defendant was not required to plead to the indictable