Two men were yesterday charged with the murder of Chateau Margot businessman Dennis Ramah.
Victor Bobb, 26, of “B” Field, Pattensen, East Coast Demerara and Quincy Arthur, 18, were both remanded to prison after they appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court. Magistrate Judy Latchman read the indictable charge separately to the two accused and explained that they were not required to plea.
It is alleged that on November 16 at Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara in the East Magisterial District Bobb and Arthur murdered Ramah.
Attorney Rexford Jackson represented Arthur and made an application for the court to allow for his client to be medically examined. Based on his instruction, Jackson told the court, his client had been “beaten by police.”
Arthur was clad in jeans and a t-shirt and Stabroek News did not observe any marks of violence anywhere on his exposed skin.
Jackson further requested that the court grant an early date for the commencement of the preliminary inquiry (PI). The PI will determine whether there is enough evidence for Bobb and Arthur to stand trial for the offence in the High Court.
Magistrate Latchman subsequently granted the attorney’s application for Arthur to be medically examined but stated that the court was not in a position to grant a date earlier than January for the continuation of the case.
The matter was adjourned to January 6, 2011. It continues at 10.30 am before the same court.
A post mortem was conducted on the body of Ramah yesterday and following this police escorted the two accused to the court. Bobb and Arthur were handcuffed to each other.
On Tuesday, police said that at about 9.30 am that day a group of five men entered the business premises of the L & D Supermarket at Second Street, Chateau Margot, where they held up the employees and placed them to lie on the ground. Of the group, two of the men were armed; one with a gun and a second with a knife.
Police said Ramah, 64, the owner of the business, raised an alarm and armed himself with a cutlass.
He managed to wound one of the perpetrators but was shot twice to his chest. The bandits subsequently ran out of the house. Three suspects are still on the run.
During the same incident, Chairman of the Community Policing Group Davenand Shyamraj was shot after he confronted the fleeing group. A passerby, Daniel Muller, 72, also sustained a gunshot wound.
