Two 20-year-olds and an 18-year-old were remanded to prison shortly after they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with attempting to break into a woman’s home.
Troy Jordan and Delon Abrams, both 20, and Naresh Rajan, 18, pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempt to commit a felony when Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson read it to them.
They denied that on July 9 they attempted to commit a felony by way of break and enter and larceny at Fareeza Khan’s Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara home.
Jordan stated that on the day in question, he, Abrams and Bajan had gone to the Great Diamond area in search of a job when two policemen approached them and told them that there was an attempted break-in in the area and they might have been the culprits.
He said that they were then taken to the police station where they were given a severe beating. He said that when Rajan was dealt a blow to his head with a stool he just told the police that he knew about the attempted break-in so that they would stop.
Rajan then said “after dey [the police] start fuh beat me I jus decide for seh I do it so deh wud stop.”
The trio then stated that they had nothing to do with the break-in and they were just in the area at the wrong time.
However, Khan, who was also present in court, stated that on the day in question she was in her bedroom when she heard several knocks on her back door.
She stated that she thought that it was her mother but when she reached to open the door she observed someone placing a slender object through a crease in the door. She said she raised an alarm and when they moved off, she looked through her window and observed the trio walking out of her yard.
The magistrate subsequently ordered that the trio be remanded to prison and that the matter be transferred to the Providence Magistrate’s Court for July 17.
