A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of rice farmer, Godfrey Adolphus Pluck Reynolds.
Ravindra Mohabir, 33, of Lot 23, Number 7 Village, West Coast Ber-bice, yesterday appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court, where he was read the charge which stated that on 14th October, 2019 he murdered Reynolds also known as ‘Bermine’, at Number 8 Village, West Coast Berbice.
Mohabir, a race horse trainer, was not required to plead to the charge.
Police Prosecutor, Sheriff Phillip, told the court that the file was incomplete.
A post-mortem examination was done on the body of Reynolds the day after he was murdered and it revealed that he died of shock and haemorrhage due to a single gunshot wound to the heart.
Mohabir will return to court on November 13.
Reynolds, 59, who was also an APNU+AFC Councillor for the Woodlands/ Bel Air Neighbourhood Democratic Council and a shop owner of Number 8 Village, West Coast Berbice was fatally shot in his bottom house last week Monday.
Nothing was stolen from the premises nor from Reynolds. He was found with $686, 540 in his pocket, which he returned home with.
His wife, her daughter and son were taken into custody shortly after the shooting and were released several days later.
Wife of the deceased, Kuntie Reynolds, 58, yesterday explained that on the night in question she was in a hammock and her husband was sitting next to her when she saw three unmasked men in their backyard. She then ran inside the house.
“Me hear a kick from the backdoor and I see the three man and I run in the kitchen and left the kitchen door open and I run upstairs from the step and I blam in the door and me hear a lash like but me na know if is a lash”.
She said she ran into her granddaughter’s room and told her to call her (Kuntie’s) daughter and inform her that they were being attacked by bandits.
The woman said she believes that the men came to kill her husband and not to rob anyone since nothing was stolen from them.
Reynolds was laid to rest on Tuesday.
