Accused mastermind, accomplice remanded over murder of overseas-based Guyanese

Malisha Dutchin, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of overseas-based Guya-nese Hemraj Pardesi, was yesterday charged with the crime alongside an alleged accomplice, as police continued a hunt for a third suspect.

Dutchin, 23, of Lot 4 Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice, and Mario Bissoondial, 32, a fisherman of Cumberland Village, East Canje, Ber-bice, both appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, where they were charged jointly with murdering Pardesi at his Lot 9 Reliance Settlement house in the furtherance of a robbery.