Two more to stand trial for septuagenarian’s murder

The remaining two of the four men charged with the 2011 fatal shooting of Robb Street resident Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, 72, were on Tuesday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Orin Hinds and Roy Jacobs were told by Magistrate Fabayo Azore that a prima facie case had been made against them.

The duo, according to Prosecutor Neville Jeffers, told the magistrate

Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris
Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris

that they were innocent of the crime and reserved their defence for the High Court.

On January 13, two other men, Cleon Hinds and Kevin October were also committed to stand trial for the murder of the septuagenarian. However, the ruling for Orin Hinds and Jacobs was postponed to Tuesday, after an outburst by Cleon Hinds and October in court. They had hurled insults at Jeffers and verbally abused Magistrate Azore.

Orin Hinds, Cleon Hinds, Jacobs and October were jointly charged with the June 30, 2011 murder of Fiedtkou-Parris.

It was the police’s case that on the day in question around 7.45 pm, two men went to the elderly woman’s home asking for ‘Auntie’.

Her brother Fitzroy Fiedtkou directed them up a side stairway. Fiedtkou-Parris appeared from a bedroom opposite the front door and one of the men allegedly pulled out a gun and shot her several times in the upper region of her body.

They then made good their escape in a car.

Fiedtkou was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was pronounced dead.