Just days after a Corentyne, Berbice businessman was charged for allegedly killing a fisherman during the course of a robbery which occurred at sea, a teenager on Wednesday stood before acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus slapped with the same charge.
Nineteen-year-old Alexander “Shameface” Denhart, of Lot 79 Village, Berbice, had the indictable charge read to him which stated that he murdered Tilacknauth Mohabir, called “Caiman”, some time between April 27, 2018 and May 3, 2018 at Corentyne, Berbice.
The teen was remanded to prison and was scheduled to make his next court appearance on June 13, 2018 at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
Denhart’s accomplice and alleged mastermind of the attack, Nakool Manohar, was last Wednesday also charged for murder.
He was also remanded for two previous charges of robbery on the high seas committed in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
The accused is expected to be back in court shortly to have read to him another murder charge, that of Mahesh Sarjoo, called “Cooba”.
Mohabir’s and Sarjoo’s bodies were the only two that were positively identified by relatives in Suriname after the attack by pirates on four fishing boats at a place called Wia Wia Bank in the Atlantic Ocean.
Reports coming out of Suriname indicated that 20 fishermen were the victims of that attack and 11 were still missing and feared dead.
Meanwhile, one of the two other bodies found was still to be identified, law enforcement was currently awaiting DNA results.
The other body was that of Gowkaran Outar, and was found on the Number 63 Beach. He was identified by a tattoo on his upper body.
