Regan Rodrigues, who police have linked to the weapon that killed political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was charged yesterday with his murder.
Police laid the charge yesterday afternoon against Rodrigues, 37, called “Grey Boy,” although they have yet to receive legal advice sought on the case from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The unrepresented Rodrigues was not required to offer a plea to the charge, which stated that on March 10th, 2015, at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, he murdered Crum-Ewing.
“In this country, once money pass nobody don’t care nothing. I know they had the real man fuh this murder but they loose he,” Rodrigues nonetheless told Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 5.
“They did done pay me to kill Mark Benchop but I say I ain’t no killer. Right now, I don’t know what to say, my worship. I is not no killer…I is no murderer,” he added.
“I vex the police didn’t tek my report when I go and report this matter,” he further said.
Rodrigues also pointed to Crum-Ewing’s family members, who were present in the courtroom. “I ain’t want his man family fuh hold me out as he killer. I want they know I ain’t kill nobody. But I got a lot of things on this mind that I will keep and it
