The police have not said whether the cash reward which was offered more than two months ago for information on the murders West Coast Berbice (WCB) cousins, Isaiah and Joel Henry has been paid to any individual/s in light of the recent breakthrough in the case.
On November 3rd, 2020, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) had announced that they were offering a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person/s responsible for the murders of the Henrys as well as Haresh Singh.It remains unclear whether the recent development in the case was as a result of information received from an informant or police work.
Contacted yesterday, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum declined to comment.
Efforts made by Stabroek News to also contact Commissioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie proved futile.
Isaiah, 16, a student at the Woodley Park Secondary School and Joel, 18, who worked at the Blairmont Estate, went missing on September 5th, 2020 after they left home for the Cotton Tree backlands to pick coconuts.
After they did not return home, relatives lodged missing persons’ reports with the police and subsequently launched a search. It was while searching that the bodies of the teens were discovered.
Autopsies performed on the bodies of the teenagers showed that they both died from haemorrhage and shock due to multiple wounds.
Days after, Singh was murdered in what is believed to be a reprisal killing.
Singh’s murder remains unsolved.
Last Friday, three men: Vinod Gopaul, Anil Sancharra and Akash Singh were charged with the murders of the Henrys.
Gopaul and Sancharra were charged jointly with the murders, while Singh was charged separately.
