Femi Harris-Smith

Shakir Mohamed, who was on trial for the murder of Shewraney Doobay, was yesterday freed after Justice Navindra Singh upheld a no-case submission made by defence attorney Maxwell McKay.

At yesterday’s commencement of the trial into her daughter’s killing, Carol Kennedy recalled seeing the accused, Jermaine Maynard reaching for a gun with which he shot Carlisa Matthews to the back of her head.

After the formal opening of the Demerara Assizes yesterday, David Godfrey Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for the 2012 killing of his girlfriend Leonaka Natasha Johnson, whose body was found in a canal near her Nismes, West Bank Demerara home.

Reminiscing on the moment they said “I do” to each other 30 years ago, a smiling Stephen David-Longe described his wife Hazel as “stunning” when he took his first glimpse of her on their wedding day; and with a chuckle she said softly that he looked “handsome” when she laid her eyes on him.

A small group of optimistic women whose ages range from 60 to 92 years old ushered in the New Year at St Joseph’s Home at 73 Vlissengen Road, Wortmanville Georgetown, smiling despite their obvious physical and environmental challenges.

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday ruled that the private criminal charge against former president Bharrat Jagdeo, filed in April this year by attorney Christopher Ram, did not disclose an offence and therefore the magistrate who heard the matter had no jurisdiction.

Balram Singh was yesterday sentenced to 80 years in jail after a jury found him guilty of murdering taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo, whose burnt remains had been dumped on the Mocha Access Road in January 2010.

According to the caution statement admitted into evidence yesterday at the trial of Balram Singh, the accused confessed that he and another man murdered taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo.

The trial of Balram Singh, who is accused of murdering taxi driver Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, yesterday heard that the deceased’s vehicle was found at a Herstelling body shop, where work was done to hide the original chassis number.

Orwin and Cleon Hinds, Kevin October and Roy Jacobs were yesterday each sentenced to 81 years in jail for the murder of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, who was gunned down at her Robb Street, Georgetown home just over four years ago.

Orvin Kevin Roberts, who is accused of murdering 84-year-old drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul, yesterday professed his innocence when given a chance to lead his defence at the close of the prosecution’s case.

Police witness Sailesh Roopnarine yesterday testified that prints found at the scene where 84-year-old drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul was murdered matched the fingerprints of the accused Orvin Kevin Roberts.

The High Court has ruled that there is no legal barrier preventing Magistrate Annette Singh from sentencing Samuel Hinds Jr.

As calls continued for an extension of the work of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of Dr Walter Rodney, lawyers for the politician’s family and party yesterday argued that the Forbes Burnham-led PNC government and agents of the state were culpable.

Former Police Constable Terrence Wallace yesterday walked out the Supreme Court a free man, after being found not guilty of the murder of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant.

Six witnesses, four police officers among them, testified yesterday when the trial of former police constable Terrence Wallace, who stands accused of the September 2012 murder of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant at Agricola, East Bank Demerara opened before Justice Navindra Singh.

The trial of Shakir Mohamed, who was charged with the murder of Shewraney Doobay, has ended in a hung jury and he has been remanded to prison pending a retrial.

Former Commissioner of Police Laurie Lewis paved the way for Gregory Smith, the key suspect in the 1980 killing of Dr Walter Rodney to obtain a Guyana passport in 1999, the inquiry probing his death heard yesterday.

Navindra Mohabir yesterday testified that murder accused Devon Thomas and Randy Isaac, both of whom he knows well, were the men who stabbed and beat both him and his now dead brother, Kumar Mohabir.

Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh who performed a post-mortem examination on the body of murdered businessman Kumar Mohabir gave the cause of death as multiple stab wounds.