Two Bartica massacre accused picked out in ID parade

Superintendent of Police Linden Lord yesterday recounted conducting identification parades at which Dennis Williams and Mark Royden Williams were identified as two of the persons involved in the massacre of 12 men at Bartica in 2008.

Lord was at the time testifying at the trial of Dennis Williams, called ‘Anaconda,’ Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Smallie’ and Roger Simon, called ‘Goat Man, who have been indicted for the murders.

The charge against the three men, who have pleaded not guilty, is that on February 17, 2008, they murdered Lance Corporal Zaheer Zakir and Constables Shane Fredericks and Ron Osborne, Edwin Gilkes, Dexter Adrian, Irving Ferreira, Deonarine Singh, Ronald Gomes, Ashraf Khan, Abdool Yasseen, Errol Thomas, and Baldeo Singh.