Four relatives of Haresh Singh were arrested twice as part of the investigation into the brutal murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry, after they would have disclosed to persons and eventually to investigators that they saw the two boys on the dam heading into the backdam.
Singh’s grandfather, Inderjeet Singh, 62, also known as ‘Bundan’, explained that initially when he was arrested by police he was informed that after providing a statement he would be able to return home. He noted, that he was not worried since he was willing to tell the police where he saw the lads.
“Them pick up we so them say we got to give one statement and then come home back but when we give the statement them put we in lock up for 72 hours.”
According to Singh, the four were released on $50,000 bail each after the 72 hours were up.
However, he said that last Friday they were rearrested and taken to Georgetown, after which they were released again on Monday.
“While we been a go down we see them boys on the dam going into the backdam and we pass them and we go down we way and we come back we way. We nah know where them go. We come out jus around 11 [am].”
He recalled it was only until the following day that they heard that the Henry boys were missing and then the bodies were found in the evening, “And then them police start pick up people and Monday morning them arrest we and carry we a station.”
According to the man, from the beginning, he told investigators where he saw the boys and at what time but they kept asking him to “talk what you know.”
The man insisted that he has no information about the murders. “Why we go do them lil boys da some-thing? Them ahwe own village people them,” the elderly man noted.
The man recalled that he was in custody when he received information that the body of his grandson, Haresh Singh, had been found. “First one detective asked who named ‘Bundan’ and me say ‘me’ and he say them beat meh grandson and he gone New Amsterdam Hospital and then afternoon late one detective give me he sympathy and then meh know seh he dead.”
According to the grandfather, the Henry boys and Singh knew each other only from primary school but were not too close friends. “When them go to other [secondary] school them nah friends, no connection with them. People a say them a friends but them nah really friends,” he informed.
The grandfather also called for justice, “We looking fa get justice, we nah know who beat him at the backdam.”
Meanwhile, one of Singh’s son, Nandram Singh, 49, confirmed that he too was arrested twice.
He said, he told investigators repeatedly that he indeed saw the Henry boys heading into the backdam but that “me nah know where them been a go.”
He added, “Them [investigators] a ask me ‘you know something?’ but me a tell them all the time me nah know nothing.”
According to the man, he was supposed to visit the hospital yesterday morning to check the condition of his eye after he was sprayed by sanitiser in Georgetown but was unable to do so since he had to attend his nephew, Haresh Singh’s, funeral on Wednesday.
