Four months after hotelier Joseph Jagdeo was found dead in one of his hotel rooms, teenager Brian Leitch was on Thursday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the man’s murder.
Leitch, 19, also known as ‘Big Foot’, was accused of murdering the 59-year-old businessman between November 13 and 14, 2013 in the dead man’s South Central Hotel.
In Leitch’s first appearance on December 2, 2013, Prosecutor Bharat Mangru had stated that Jagdeo had discovered his cell phone missing and had approached Leitch about it. The following day, the hotel’s caretaker went to clean Jagdeo’s room and discovered it locked. Later, when access was