Four charged with murdering Bath businessman

Four men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of businessman Mohamed Haniff, who succumbed in hospital a week ago after he was brutalised during a home invasion at Bath, on the West Coast of Berbice. 

The accused are Sarjoo Matadin, 56, a cash crop farmer of Bath; Royston Dowden, 29, a labourer of Waterloo, Bath; Devon McCalmon, 50, a weeder and drainage cleaner, of Number 22 Village and Ivan Lindo, 21, a weeder and security guard of Waterloo, Bath. They appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court, where the joint charge was read to them.