Sheldon Colin Abrams, the suspect who was arrested more than a week ago for the 2015 murder of taxi driver Colin Clarke, was on Monday charged with murder and remanded to prison.
Abrams, of Lot 6 Supply, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, was not required to plead to the indictable charge when he appeared in a city court.
The matter was adjourned until October 28th.
The police had confirmed that Abrams was arrested last Monday at 111 Miles, Mahdia. He was subsequently transported to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Eve Leary for questioning.
In May, 2018, the police had issued a wanted bulletin for Abrams, who was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Clarke which occurred between November 25 and December 3, 2015 at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD).
Clarke, 57, was last seen alive in his silver Toyota Allion, HC 4993, on November 25, 2015 around 3 pm at his Crane, WCD home.
His body was found on December 3rd, 2015 in a trench at Uitvlugt, WCD and it is suspected that he was robbed of his car and murdered.
Maureen Clarke, Colin’s sister, had explained to Stabroek News that on the day the body was discovered that family members were able to identify the man from his clothes and the three silver chains he was wearing.
“He was killed long because his body was already decomposed badly …,” she said, while adding that from the information she received from the police and the marks she saw, the man was strangled.
“I saw the thing they used too. It was left tangled between his chains,” she said. She described the object as being rope-like, with two wooden ends.
