Soesdyke man charged with murdering lumberyard manager

Raymond Shawn Tyson

Soesdyke resident Raymond Shawn Tyson was yesterday charged with the six-month-old murder of a young lumberyard manager after police say they traced the dead man’s smartphone to him.

Tyson, 28, of Lot 46 Kalicharran Road, Soes-dyke, Linden Highway, was not required to plead to the charge that he murdered Thandu Singh, 22, also known as Khemraj Singh, who was found dead with a wound to the neck in a cottage at Land of Canaan earlier this year. He was remanded to prison until March 3, 2014.

According to the charge read by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 1, between May 27 and May 28, at Land of Canaan, Tyson murdered Singh, who was