Lennox Roberts, the second man who the police had said was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle was yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.
Roberts, 19, a labourer of Lot 26 Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court.
He was not required to plead to the indictable offence and was remanded to prison until January 22, 2020. Just over two weeks ago, the police had issued a wanted bulletin for Roberts in relation to the murder.
Lennox Roberts
He is the second person to be charged with the crime.
On October 8, 19-year-old Rollan Abrams, who is also a labourer of Melanie Damishana, ECD was charged with murdering Gentle and was remanded to prison.
Gentle’s lifeless body was discovered on the morning of September 2nd with chop wounds about his body and his head almost severed from his neck at Haslington, ECD.
The fifty-five-year-old had left his Lot 42 Golden Grove, ECD home for a karaoke at Nabaclis North, also on the East Coast.
Investigators had ruled out robbery as the motive behind his death since all his belongings were still on his person.
Stokley Roberts, the dead man’s brother, had told this newspaper that based on the injuries inflicted, it was clear that Gentle’s attacker/s wanted him dead.
Rollan Abrams
“Apparently he was ambushed. That’s more like an ambush… No one would have receive those kind of wounds and live.
When a man head actually come off his body, how he gonna live like that? He wasn’t robbed because everything was retrieved from his pocket, in terms of his phone, he had on a ring. So it was clearly a murder,” Roberts had said.
Roberts had said he believed that his brother’s killing was linked to either his job at the Nabaclis Neighbourhood Demo-cratic Council (NDC) or because he reportedly gave chase behind some men who evaded the police.
