Pandemonium broke out at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts last Friday when eight persons arrived in handcuffs in the presence of heavily armed ranks of the Guyana Police Force. They were charged for the murder of Meten-Meer-Zorg businessman Zulfikar Namdar and an armed robbery at Wakenaam recently.
The eight men were jointly charged for murder; five of them were charged for the Wakenaam robbery and two were also slapped with conspiracy charges.
Alan Doset of Lot 610 Zeelugt; Derwyn Croft of Lot 589 Tuchen Housing Scheme; Essan Lawrence of Vreed-en-Hoop; Jermaine Williams of Anna Catherina and Khyran Khan of Parika were not required to plead to the charge which stated that on September 7 at Good Success, Wakenaam they entered the house of Rohan Dananayshore. They discharged several rounds and robbed the family of Gy$ 3.5 million in jewellery and Gy$ 2.2 million in cash.
On September 10, armed gunmen invade the home of Zulfikar Namdar at Meten-Meer- Zorg, where they shot and killed him.
They also robbed Fazeela Namdar of Gy$ 320,000 in items along with one million dollars in cash.
Again the suspects Doset, Croft, Lawrence, Williams and Khan, along with Andrew Chandler of West Meten-Meer-Zorg, Samuel Bacchus of East Ruimveldt Squatting Area and Cassandra Singh of Lot 610 Zeelugt were not required to plead to the indictable charge.
Police were acting on information relating to a robbery at Meten-Meer-Zorg committed on Sharriff Ahmad on September 16, when it is alleged that the accused confronted the now deceased Kirk Bacchus and Keefa Small also known as “Frog eye”. Peter Christian and Samuel Bacchus, who is the brother of the late Kirk Bacchus, were in control of two cars when they were arrested in the area. The men were questioned and admitted to transporting Small and Kirk and were waiting on them.
Attorney Melville Duke represented Williams.
Cassandra Singh was unrepresented and told the court that her rights were denied by the police officers.
The chief magistrate denied all of the defendants bail and they were remanded to prison. The matter is set to return to court on October 28.
