Guyanese Marcus Bisram is expected in Guyana to face a murder charge after he lost an extradition challenge in a New York court on Tuesday. Bisram is wanted in Guyana for the murder of a Berbice carpenter.
District Judge, Kiyo A Matsumoto presided over the case on Tuesday, where she upheld that there was sufficient evidence for Bisram to be repatriated to Guyana. Judge of the Eastern District, Peggy Kuo had similarly ruled that the evidence was enough, and an extradition order was signed.
On October 31, 2016, Faiyaz Narinedatt was beaten and ran over with a motorcar at the alleged orders of Bisram, after the carpenter declined sexual advances that were made by the overseas-based Guyanese. The body of 27-year-old Narinedatt was later found on the Number 70 Village Public Road on the Corentyne.
Evidence had indicated that the carpenter was thrashed, placed in the trunk of a car and then placed on the road.
It is believed that five henchmen – Radesh Motie, Diadatt Datt, Harri Paul Parsram, Orlando Dickie and Niran Yacoob – were instructed by Bisram to dump the body and make his death seem as a result of vehicular accident. While two of the men had confessed to the killing, Bisram’s mother and sister were accused of offering bribes to dissolve the case.
The Guyana Police Force came in for unprecedented criticism after several Police Officers in Berbice were implicated in a plot to cover up the murder. All of the accused have since been committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder after a Berbice Magistrate found that a prima facie case has been made out against them.
On March 7 2017, a warrant was issued for Bisram by the judicial system in Guyana and since then, he has been fighting his extradition by challenge by all means. According to the case’s background as outlined in the judgement, High Court Judge Navindra Singh had dismissed the case on November 24, 2017.
Meanwhile, the murder-accused mother, Sharmila Inderjalli had petitioned the courts to expedite the judicial process regarding her bid to have the Director of Public Prosecutions withdraw the murder case.
State attorneys, however, contend that Bisram’s lawyers have been abusing the court’s process and in July, Inderjalli had to pay G$250,000 to the State when Appeal Court Justice Rishi Persaud and acting Justices, Arif Bulkan and Rafiq Khan denied her application.
The Appellate Court’s decision was read by acting Appellate Justice, Dr Arif Bulkan, who orated that the applicant’s filing repeated litigation amounted to an abuse of the court’s process.
Just last August, an appeal was also made to the Caribbean Court of Justice to which it upheld the court’s ruling which stated that Bisram will have to wait at a New York holding facility as long as he is fighting the extradition process.
With this new development in the case, the murder-accused could soon be deported to Guyana where he will be arraigned for murder.
