A 21-year-old man was remanded yesterday when he appeared before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the capital offence of murder.
It is alleged that Shawn Ransom, a chainsaw operator of Section ‘C’ Christiansburg, Linden murdered Aubrey Griffith of Blue Berry Hill Squatting Area, Linden.
Griffith’s body was discovered on May 5 in a six-inch shallow grave some five miles from where he worked as a logger on the Makouria Trail, Essequibo River. Ransom’s lawyer, Patrice Henry, said that the prosecution had no evidence against his client except an alleged confession statement and requested that the magistrate grant the earliest possible date for the man’s hearing.
Police Prosecutor Denise Griffith said the confession was not the only evidence the prosecution had but it would come out at the preliminary inquiry.
Griffith had gone missing on April 29, after leaving home at the regular time. The man’s mother, Amelia Gill, had said that before her son went missing he was involved in an altercation with two brothers from the neighbourhood over a bicycle wheel. Those men and a woman were held by the police. Two persons were subsequently released and charges were instituted against Ransom.
Meanwhile the matter was transferred to the Bartica Magistrate’s Court for June 11.
